The Killing Cave

By Elizabeth Bailey

The intrepid Lady Fan has a new mystery to solve For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.

Corpses follow Lady Fan wherever she goes...

1799, England

A family holiday to the seaside takes a dramatic turn when Lady Ottilia Fanshawe's young son Luke accidentally stumbles on a body in a cave.

Lady Fan and her husband Francis quickly rush to the scene and find the corpse bound and blindfolded with a bullet hole in his head.

It appears the man was executed, and with smugglers well-known to operate in the area, the local sergeant suggests it was a quarrel amongst the reprobates.

But Ottilia is not so sure. The crime scene seemed staged, and the dead man too well dressed to be a common criminal.

There is nothing else for it. The Fanshawes must extend their stay on the Norfolk coast to allow Lady Fan to take the lead.

But with her health compromised, four young children to care for and a grumbling mother-in-law in tow, can Lady Fan summon up enough strength to unravel this mystery? Or will this be the case that finally forces her into retirement?

THE KILLING CAVE is the eleventh book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century England.

'The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives-and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey ' - Meritorious Mysteries

'Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work' - She Reads Novels

'They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well Her heroine sleuth, Ottilia, is a fantastic character.' - Historical Romance UK

LADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES
BOOK ONE: The Gilded Shroud
BOOK TWO: The Deathly Portent
BOOK THREE: The Opium Purge
BOOK FOUR: The Candlelit Coffin
BOOK FIVE: The Mortal Blow
BOOK SIX: The Fateful Marriage
BOOK SEVEN: The Dagger Dance
BOOK EIGHT: The Unwanted Corpse
BOOK NINE: The Vengeance Trail
BOOK TEN: The Hanging Cheat
BOOK ELEVEN: The Killing Cave

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854955739
• ISBN13: 9780854955732
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Sapere Books
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"