Description
A fresh, uncomplicated nineteenth-century adventure with a strong, unconventional amateur detective. Escape with Lady Cornbrook into the fun side of history.Brooding, plotting, keeping secrets and the odd spot of murder: these things are pretty much compulsory on the stereotypical dark winter moorland of northern England in the Victorian era.Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook is a Victorian widow with no intention of playing society’s games any longer. She wilfully refuses to remarry, and speaks to her maid like she’s an actual human being. The horror!Trouble stalks a rebel like that, and trouble follows Cordelia to the wild moors of North Yorkshire. A girl is found dead. And not one, but two handsome strangers are raising suspicions. Cordelia’s investigations set her in opposition to the local worthies and her own family.There’s a dashing cavalry officer and a passionate rabble-rousing Chartist, trouble at the Mill, wayward servants, night-time escapades with weaponry, and a large pig.Can Cordelia really find the killer when she can barely control her own staff
