Fatality with Forster
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Publisher Description
Newly married Emily Richards walks into a family drama that recalls Forster’s classic work while honeymooning at an English country house, in the gripping fifth Crime with the Classics cozy.
Retired professor Emily Richards and her husband, Luke, are taking a much-needed break from Windy Corner and spending their honeymoon five thousand miles away as paying guests at Fitzhugh Manor in Oxfordshire.
Quaint nearby villages and the manor’s impressive turrets and arches capture Emily’s Anglophile heart, but when she meets its dashing young heir, James Fitzhugh, and his American wife, Allison, James’s cousin Penelope, his dithering uncle Roger and the manor’s formidable dowager, Lady Margaret Fitzhugh, it's clear that class prejudice, resentment and secrets threaten to tear the family apart. Is there more to a fatal accident than meets the eye?
Emily soon finds herself in the middle of a family drama redolent of Forster’s classic novels, but can she pull off her own masterstroke to catch a killer?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hyde's evocative fifth Crime with Classics mystery (after 2019's Death with Dostoevsky) takes former literature professor Emily Cavanaugh and her new husband, Sheriff Luke Richardson, of Stony Beach, Ore., to a B&B on a grand English estate for a monthlong honeymoon. Their hosts, Sir James Fitzhugh and his American wife, Allison, have instituted several moneymaking schemes to contribute to the estate's upkeep, of which the B&B is one. The hosts are keeping James's extremely traditional grandmother, Lady Margaret, who was horrified that her darling grandson married an American, in the dark about such changes, as they know she would never approve. James and Allison are striving to live authentic lives, and Lady Margaret is desperate to maintain the family's position and keep up appearances. When a shocking murder occurs on the estate, Lady Margaret insists Allison is to blame, and Emily and Luke are thrust into the whodunit equivalent of an E.M. Forster novel. Literary references galore and plenty of chilling English manor house atmosphere more than make up for what amounts to not much of a mystery. Hyde knows how to hook the reader.
