The Fateful Marriage

A brand new mystery featuring Lady Fan! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. Wherever Lady Fan goes, murder follows... 1792, England Lady Ottilia and Lord Francis Fanshawe are holidaying in Tunbridge Wells when they stumble across the scene of a horrific accident. While visiting the High Rocks, a local tourist spot, a young woman falls to her death from the top of the climb. It soon becomes clear that the woman is linked to the infamous Dowager Viscountess Lady Wem - an indomitable matriarch visiting Tunbridge with her extended family. The young woman was at the centre of a scandal - Lady Wem's grandson, Daniel, eloped with her three years prior. As Lady Fan is introduced to the family her suspicions are aroused. Was the fall a devastating mishap? Or could the woman have been pushed? Lady Fan must unravel dark family secrets in her quest for the truth... THE FATEFUL MARRIAGE is the sixth book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century London. 'The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives-and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey!' - Meritorious Mysteries 'Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work' - She Reads Novels 'They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well! Her heroine sleuth, Ottilia, is a fantastic character.' - Historical Romance UK LADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIESBOOK ONE: The Gilded ShroudBOOK TWO: The Deathly PortentBOOK THREE: The Opium PurgeBOOK FOUR: The Candlelit CoffinBOOK FIVE: The Mortal BlowBOOK SIX: The Fateful MarriageBOOK SEVEN: The Dagger DanceBOOK EIGHT: The Unwanted CorpseBOOK NINE: The Vengeance TrailBOOK TEN: The Hanging CheatBOOK ELEVEN: The Killing Cave