A Silent Stabbing

Alyssa Maxwell

ກ.ພ. 2020 · RB Media · ບັນຍາຍໂດຍ Amy Scanlon

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As England recovers from its costly involvement in the Great War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s
maid, Eva Huntford, find the steady comforts of their lives unsettled by a local case of murder ...

Eva is excited for a visit from her sister Alice, who lives in Suffolk with her husband and three children. But when
Alice arrives alone, desiring a break from her family, Eva becomes concerned. Her dismay deepens as Alice starts
spending time with a former beau, Keenan Ripley, who owns the nearby pear orchard. At the same time, Phoebe’s
sister Julia, now a widow and pregnant, is in a fretful state, and Phoebe struggles to be helpful to her.

When Keenan’s brother Stephen, the new head gardener at the Renshaw estate, Foxwood Hall, is found impaled by
a pair of hedge clippers, the police—including Eva’s beau, Constable Miles Brannock—suspect his closest kin. Stephen
had been eager to sell their orchard to an American developer, but Keenan had fiercely resisted. A table set with two
teacups and scones suggests Keenan had company the morning of the murder—and Eva fears her sister was with him.

If Alice were to provide Keenan with an alibi, her reputation and marriage would be ruined. She denies being there
but is clearly withholding secrets, much to Eva’s consternation. Now, to protect her sister, Eva and Phoebe set off to
expose the gardener’s real killer, putting their own lives at risk ...

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Alyssa Maxwell is an American author who grew up in New England. She has worked in publishing as a reference book editor, ghost writer, and fiction editor. She has always wanted to be a novelist. Her travels to Great Britain and Ireland, and love for all kinds of puzzles and history, made writing mysteries a nature choice. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the Florida Romance Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Novelists Inc. Her work includes the Gilded Newport Mysteries series and A Lady and Lady's Maid Mysteries series.