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A Cotswold industrialist vanishing off the face of the earth, a heat-affected widow on her first vacation, a female archaeologist encountering a secret Brotherhood.Cairo, June 1896Lady Catherine Lowther is simply irresistible. But when Catherine announces her cousin Imogene must vacation with her at the famous Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, Imogene fights the ludicrous proposal with tooth and nail.Finally, back in her own house in Landdulton and still mourning Thaddeus, her constable husband, all Imogene wants is to be left alone. But does she really?Cairo is hot, hoity-toity, and hazardous. As Imogene soon finds out. Jam-packed with British officers, aristocrats, and self-made millionaires. The last persons she expects to run into are Mr Ralph Herriot, the opulent Dartmond industrialist, and his self-important wife, Winnifred.Until Ralph Herriot mysteriously disappears at the Pyramids of Giza and a hysterical Winnifred begs Mrs Lynch to find her husband for her.What history do Catherine and Mr Herriot share? And does Imogene want to know? And how is it possible that a second Mr Herriot seems to be at the Dartmond factory, as usual?Far away from home and without her constable husband to assist her, Mrs Imogene Lynch must tap into all her detective knowledge and skills to solve the peculiar vanishing act of Mr Ralph Herriot.

A presumed dead baby who's just turned fifty, a grieving widow on a mission, a female haberdasher hiding a scandalous secret.The Cotswolds, England, December 1895Fifty-year-old Imogene Lynch has recently moved to the tight-knit community of Dartmond after her husband passed away.In the decades of her husband's job as chief constable of the neighboring Landdulton, the childless Imogene often assisted him in solving seemingly unsolvable crimes. On his deathbed Thaddeus Lynch has one last request to his wife: solve the secret Christmas baby's mystery.Overcome by grief, but with the promise as a stamp on her heart, Imogene sets out in her roundabout way to unearth Sir Finley Lowther's mysterious origins. The first trace leads to Miss Eloise Platt, a well-respected Dartmond shopkeeper.But when a baby's skull is dredged up from the bottom of Tiverstock Lake and Miss Eloise confesses to the murder, Mrs Imogene Lynch faces a stalemate. While the Dartmonders squabble over Miss Platt's fate, the widow-turned-detective worries she'll never fulfil her promise.To break through her impasse, she pays a visit to the elderly Lady Lowther in Ridgeview Asylum with far-reaching consequences. For Imogene, the mystery is now solved, but getting Miss Platt to tell the truth is another matter.With her characteristic quirky style, Mrs Lynch confides in the most unlikely candidate in her arsenal, her landlord, Mr Richard Hopewell. If the mute bookkeeper can shed light on what he witnessed on that fateful Christmas Day in 1845, she has the ally she needs to confront Miss Platt.After fifty-one years, Constable Thaddeus Lynch's brown file on the Secret Christmas Baby can be closed for good. With Finley's adoption mystery solved and Miss Platt redeemed, all Dartmond joins in the merry 1896 Christmas celebrations.This first book in the Victorian Cozy Mystery Series introduces Mrs Imogene Lynch, a willy-nilly detective who talks too much and eats too little.

"I have loved every minute reading this series. The Norwegian Assassin captivated my mind and heart. So little is told about the struggles of Norway during WW2. And combined with Esther's search for the family, it gave a heart wrenching insight into what it was like to be a Jewish survivor of the Nazi reign of terror."-Amazon ReviewerHer family's gone. Her fiancé taken from her. Esther Weiss sees only one way to fight back.Vienna, 1938Esther Weiss has her whole life planned out. She is to be married to her wonderful fiancé Carl Bernstein, and their future together looks as bright and beautiful as the Austrian landscape. But when Hitler annexes her home country, everything changes. The wedding is postponed indefinitely, and the Weiss family's life is uprooted.When the treatment of Austrian Jews becomes unbearable, the family flees north. Their hope for safety in Oslo is short-lived when Hitler also invades Norway, and the Quisling puppet regime is put into place.Esther returns home one day to discover her entire family has been deported. Gone. Without a trace.Something inside Esther breaks; the soft-hearted, gentle girl transforms into a vengeful warrior. She joins the Norwegian Resistance movement and uses her blond hair and light eyes to procure a false passport; enough to grant her freedom - the freedom to kill.No German or Norwegian fascist is safe when Esther is nearby. Destroying those who took her family gives Esther a license to live, but it also hardens her heart and no one, not even Tore Ringdal-her protector in the Resistance-can break through the walls she has built around herself. Now all she has loved is gone, and only hate remains, will the Norwegian Assassin find a way to open her heart again?The Norwegian Assassin is spellbinding story of love, loss, and courage in Norway's darkest of times. Esther's tale will stay with you long after you finished reading. An unputdownable WW2 novel for fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.