The Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery Collection, book 1: Books 1-3Lynn Messina2021

A Brazen Curiosity
At the decrepit old age of six-and-twenty, Miss Beatrice Hyde-Clare has virtually no hope of landing a husband. An orphan living off her relatives’ charity, her job is to sit with her needlework and to keep her thoughts to herself. Not even the presence of the aggravatingly handsome Duke of Kesgrave could lead this young lady to scandal. But, when she stumbles upon the dead body of another houseguest, all Bea’s good intentions fly out the well-appointed window…

A Scandalous Deception
When a London dandy falls dead at Bea’s feet in the entryway of the London Daily Gazette, she feels no compulsion to investigate. It was a newspaper office, after all, and reporters are already on the case as are the authorities. Truly, she has no interest at all. Except the dagger that killed the poor earl seemed disconcertingly familiar… The handsome Duke of Kesgrave has no reason to waste his time solving a mystery alongside a shy spinster. And yet he turns up everywhere she goes…

An Infamous Betrayal
Having solved the two murders that. Somehow fell in her path, Beatrice Hyde-Clare is on the lookout for a third. Through an absurd quirk of fate, the shy spinster has fallen in love with the thoroughly unattainable Duke of Kesgrave and is desperate for something, anything, to occupy her mind. A dead body would do nicely. Fortunately for her, a fellow guest from a Lake District house party appears on her doorstep with exactly that… Now Bea is faced with the daunting challenge of exposing the villain without revealing her heart.