The Seven Swans

A Hertfordshire Pub Mystery. With the loss of his wife and livelyhood, sixty-year-old Spencer Stevens has nothing much left except a forty-year-old snapshot of a lost love and the right to renovate and run a derelict Hertfordshire public house. Spencer's struggle to solve the mysteries of his failed life and loves precipitates him into a long-ago mystery involving plague, a conniving abbot, and a beautiful girl in a swan-white gown, shot in the back with an arrow. The Seven Swans pub is loaded with secrets spanning centuries, and one of them may hold the key to a second chance for Spencer's happiness. This is the first in the Hertfordshire Pub Mystery series of novellas, by the author of the delightful Stella Ryman and the Fairmount Manor Mysteries. Take a wry protagonist with a cast of quirky frenemies, add a dash of Wodehousian wit, mix in a mystery that would stump Miss Marple, throw it all through time, and you have the charming and delightful Seven Swans Mysteries.