Elder Legacies

von Leenie Hobbie

318 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

ELDER LEGACIES, book one of a planned series, is an 85K word adult mystery set in 1918 America. This whodunit will resonate with readers of Susan WittigAlbert's China Bayles herbal mysteries, especially QUEEN ANNE'S LACE, and MRS.JEFFRIES VICTORIAN MYSTERY series by Emily Brightwell.Originally from Scotland, Thomasina 'Tommie' Dubois at 24 finds herself a WWIwidow. With the assistance of her16-year-old African American apprentice, Nell Fisher, Tommieowns and runs a tearoom and apothecary in her inherited Victorian home. The bedroomcommunity of New Babylon, situated near the nation's capital, appears to be a sleepy village butit holds dark secrets harking back to the days of slavery, as Tommie discovers when her boarder, Clarence Patterson, isfound dead in his room. Has the deadly influenza raging across the globe struck, as the doctorhastily declares? This appears likely--- until Nell is abducted. A reluctant and inexperienced sleuth,Tommie rises to the challenge.Initially Tommie's greatest wish is to be mistress of a traditional home filled with family andhomemaking modeled after MRS. BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT, aVictorian Martha Stewart. Tommie clings to the book's promises of orderly habits resulting inguaranteed happiness despite all evidence to the contrary. Ever optimistic and sometimescomically naïve, Tommie tries to make her way in a man's world and finds she may have morein common with the rabble-rousing suffragists than with Mrs. Beeton.

• Themen: Belletristik Kriminalromane und Mystery Privatdetektive / Amateurdetektive
• ISBN: 9798218643126
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2025
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Pressing Matters (Arlene Hobbie)