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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
(2022)(The sixth book in the Inspector Lazarus Mystery series)
A novel by Suzanne Downes
Inspector Lazarus has better things to do than act as a bodyguard to Trentham Lovell, the Earl of Brookdale, but he has no choice.
Arabella Allingham has found that her impending divorce from her unfaithful husband has made her an outcast with her prudish neighbours, so to try and regain her place in society she decides to dedicate the annual Havering Hall Gala Day to the town’s elderly hero, C H Underwood.
She knows his family must attend, including the distantly related and notorious ‘wicked earl’, and despite his bad reputation the local gentry will not dare to snub an aristocrat.
Lazarus is drawn unwillingly into her plotting when it transpires the earl has been receiving threatening notes and he must unmask the sender before the earl’s life is forfeit.
Meanwhile the newly wed Penelope Dodson has disappeared, leaving behind only slight traces of blood. Has she been kidnapped as her husband claims, or has Gabriel Dodson murdered her to gain control of her fortune?
Genre: Mystery
Arabella Allingham has found that her impending divorce from her unfaithful husband has made her an outcast with her prudish neighbours, so to try and regain her place in society she decides to dedicate the annual Havering Hall Gala Day to the town’s elderly hero, C H Underwood.
She knows his family must attend, including the distantly related and notorious ‘wicked earl’, and despite his bad reputation the local gentry will not dare to snub an aristocrat.
Lazarus is drawn unwillingly into her plotting when it transpires the earl has been receiving threatening notes and he must unmask the sender before the earl’s life is forfeit.
Meanwhile the newly wed Penelope Dodson has disappeared, leaving behind only slight traces of blood. Has she been kidnapped as her husband claims, or has Gabriel Dodson murdered her to gain control of her fortune?
Genre: Mystery
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