Summer of Secrets

· Blackstone Publishing · Narrated by Mark Meadows
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8 hr 36 min
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When a murder is staged at magnificent Knebworth House, Victorian writer-sleuths Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins investigate.

August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyons. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the center of the stage, shot to death.

With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. Their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists, and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back more than twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating repercussions for the present.

About the author

Cora Harrison worked as a teacher before she decided to write her first novel, and she has since published over two dozen children’s historical novels and many books for adults. She lives on a farm in the west of Ireland.

Mark Meadows is an experienced narrator and actor who has narrated over 100 audiobooks. His works include the 2013 Man Booker Prize winner The Luminaries as well as voice work for Ridley Scott's Prometheus. In addition to his extensive theater, film, and television credits, he frequently contributes to plays, musicals, and readings for BBC Radio 3 and 4.

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