Description When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series.
Her books have been nominated for many awards, including the RITA Award, the Romantic Times Reviewers\' Choice Award, the Booksellers Best, the National Readers\' Choice Award, and the Holt Medallion..
About the Author Eliza Casey is a pseudonym for a multipublished author.
After the poison that someone had stashed away inside the manor is discovered, Cecilia is left with two possibilities: Either a resident of Danby snapped and tried to kill the arrogant heiress, or the threat is coming from one of their guests, who would love to see the Bates family\'s decline become permanent.
As the scandal seizes Danby, Cecilia sets out to find the culprit, with help from Annabel\'s maid, Jane, and Jane\'s curiously intelligent cat, Jack.
When a guest dies after sipping from a glass meant for Annabel, it\'s clear the Bates have a more poisonous problem on their hands than a lack of chemistry.
To help the lackluster Patrick in this pursuit, the Bates and their staff arrange a grand house party upon the heiress\'s arrival.
The Earl and Countess of Avebury are determined that Cecilia\'s brother, Patrick, will win Annabel\'s hand in marriage--and her fortune along with it.
A possible solution arrives in the form of the imperious American heiress Annabel Clarke.
But now, with an agricultural depression sweeping the countryside, the Bates family\'s possession of the hall is suddenly in peril.
Despite the rigid rules of etiquette and her mother the Countess of Avebury\'s fervent desire to see her married off, Lady Cecilia can\'t imagine life anywhere else.
Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known.
England 1912.
Description When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series
