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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A well-written tale, ideal to read on a Sunday afternoon with a cuppa and a piece of sponge cake.’ Goodreads review
A DELICIOUSLY QUIRKY COZY MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS BY A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
Meet Bea Abbot. Life in leafy Kensington should be all Georgian houses, beautiful parks and charming tea shops. But it turns out there are plenty of murders to solve for our amateur sleuth.
It’s Saturday morning. And things at the Abbot Agency are perfectly peaceful. Until . . .
Bea’s former client, Magda, turns up in quite the fix. Her hand grips a brown leather briefcase, stuffed with diamonds.
They belong to her employer, Lucas Rycroft, the flighty younger brother of a local lord. He handed them to Magda before dashing off to the barber’s.
Now he’s vanished without a trace, leaving Magda with the diamonds — and a world of trouble she never bargained for.
Two of Lucas’s nephews are hot on her heels. And just like that, Bea finds herself drawn into the tangled affairs of the Rycroft family.
Is there anything Lucas’s scheming relatives won’t do to lay hands on the family jewels?
When a corpse is discovered in Magda’s bed, the mystery takes a lethal turn.
Can Bea and Magda catch the killer before anyone else dies?
A charming cozy murder mystery packed with wit and intrigue. Fans of Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton, the Reverend Richard Coles and Jane Adams will love this unputdownable mystery.
READERS LOVE THE ABBOT AGENCY MYSTERIES:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heley’s Bea Abbot series has proven most addictive . . . I finish one Bea Abbot novel and immediately embark on the next!’ Ivonne R.
⭐⭐⭐⭐�� ‘If you love clever whodunnits, you will love these!’ Pamela G.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I'm really enjoying getting to know Bea and her wonderful, extended family. The mysteries surrounding them are fun and intriguing.’ Linda
ABOUT THE DETECTIVE
Sixty-something Bea Abbot is recently widowed and newly returned to London after taking an around-the-world trip with her late husband, Hamilton, one he never finished. Heartbroken but determined, she must decide what to do with her husband’s business. The Abbot Agency is an exclusive organisation which handles domestic crises such as house clearances, staff problems and entertaining. Bea is tempted to sell up and settle for a quiet life — a move urged upon her by her MP son Max and his socially ambitious wife Nicole. Bea can’t think of a better way to spend her sunset years, that is until she ends up investigating murders . . .
ALSO BY VERONICA HELEY
THE BEA ABBOT AGENCY MYSTERIES
Book 1: A FALSE CHARITY
Book 2: A FALSE PICTURE
Book 3: A FALSE STEP
Book 4: A FALSE PRETENCE
Book 5: FALSE MONEY
Book 6: A FALSE REPORT
Book 7: A FALSE ALARM
Book 8: A FALSE DIAMOND
Book 9: A FALSE IMPRESSION
Book 10: A FALSE WALL
Book 11: A FALSE FIRE
Book 12: A FALSE PRIDE
Genre: Mystery
A DELICIOUSLY QUIRKY COZY MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS BY A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
Meet Bea Abbot. Life in leafy Kensington should be all Georgian houses, beautiful parks and charming tea shops. But it turns out there are plenty of murders to solve for our amateur sleuth.
It’s Saturday morning. And things at the Abbot Agency are perfectly peaceful. Until . . .
Bea’s former client, Magda, turns up in quite the fix. Her hand grips a brown leather briefcase, stuffed with diamonds.
They belong to her employer, Lucas Rycroft, the flighty younger brother of a local lord. He handed them to Magda before dashing off to the barber’s.
Now he’s vanished without a trace, leaving Magda with the diamonds — and a world of trouble she never bargained for.
Two of Lucas’s nephews are hot on her heels. And just like that, Bea finds herself drawn into the tangled affairs of the Rycroft family.
Is there anything Lucas’s scheming relatives won’t do to lay hands on the family jewels?
When a corpse is discovered in Magda’s bed, the mystery takes a lethal turn.
Can Bea and Magda catch the killer before anyone else dies?
A charming cozy murder mystery packed with wit and intrigue. Fans of Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton, the Reverend Richard Coles and Jane Adams will love this unputdownable mystery.
READERS LOVE THE ABBOT AGENCY MYSTERIES:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heley’s Bea Abbot series has proven most addictive . . . I finish one Bea Abbot novel and immediately embark on the next!’ Ivonne R.
⭐⭐⭐⭐�� ‘If you love clever whodunnits, you will love these!’ Pamela G.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I'm really enjoying getting to know Bea and her wonderful, extended family. The mysteries surrounding them are fun and intriguing.’ Linda
ABOUT THE DETECTIVE
Sixty-something Bea Abbot is recently widowed and newly returned to London after taking an around-the-world trip with her late husband, Hamilton, one he never finished. Heartbroken but determined, she must decide what to do with her husband’s business. The Abbot Agency is an exclusive organisation which handles domestic crises such as house clearances, staff problems and entertaining. Bea is tempted to sell up and settle for a quiet life — a move urged upon her by her MP son Max and his socially ambitious wife Nicole. Bea can’t think of a better way to spend her sunset years, that is until she ends up investigating murders . . .
ALSO BY VERONICA HELEY
THE BEA ABBOT AGENCY MYSTERIES
Book 1: A FALSE CHARITY
Book 2: A FALSE PICTURE
Book 3: A FALSE STEP
Book 4: A FALSE PRETENCE
Book 5: FALSE MONEY
Book 6: A FALSE REPORT
Book 7: A FALSE ALARM
Book 8: A FALSE DIAMOND
Book 9: A FALSE IMPRESSION
Book 10: A FALSE WALL
Book 11: A FALSE FIRE
Book 12: A FALSE PRIDE
Genre: Mystery
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