The Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery Collection, book 2: Books 4-6Lynn Messina2021

A Nefarious Engagement
Having long abandoned any hope of making a match, twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare finds herself a little overwhelmed by her engagement to the Duke of Kesgrave. Fortunately, Be a knows the perfect distraction–and intriguing mystery.
But this time the murder victims are her own mother and father, who had died twenty years before in a seemingly straightforward accident….


A Treacherous Performance
Having inexplicably nabbed the Duke of Kesgrave, twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once and no amount of handwringing from anxious family members, worried friends, and well-meaning acquaintances will convince her to delay. But then there’s the truly unfathomable appearance on her doorstep of the former Miss Brougham, the spiteful heiress whose cruel taunts derailed Bea’s social career. Remarkably, the society matron has a mystery to solve and knows Bea is the only person who can help her…

A Sinister Establishment
The former Beatrice Hyde-Clare is having a little trouble adjusting to her new situation. But just as Bea begins to despair–a bright spot. A neighboring house has suffered a ghastly tragedy, and although the constable deems it an inadvertent decapitation, she can’t believe anyone could be so careless as to accidentally lose his head. Determined to discover the truth, the new duchess pays her first social call…