I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
Book 2 - An Emily Dickinson Mystery

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

    • 4.7 • 3 Ratings
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Amanda Flower.

August 1856. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street. Emily’s brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted when famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst to speak at a local literary society and decides he and his young secretary, Luther Howard, will stay with the newlyweds. Emily has been a longtime admirer of Emerson’s writing and is thrilled at the chance to meet her idol. She is determined to impress him with her quick wit, and if she can gather the courage, a poem. Willa Noble, the second maid in the Dickinson home and Emily's friend, encourages her to speak to the famous but stern man. But his secretary, Luther, intrigues Willa more because of his clear fondness for the Dickinson sisters.

Willa does not know if Luther truly cares for one of the Dickinson girls or if he just sees marrying one of them as a way to raise himself up in society. After a few days in his company, Willa starts to believe it’s the latter. Miss Lavinia, Emily’s sister, appears to be enchanted by Luther; a fact that bothers Emily greatly. However, Emily’s fears are squashed when Luther turns up dead in the Dickinson’s garden. It seems that he was poisoned. Emerson, aghast at the death of his secretary, demands answers. Emily and Willa set out to find them in order to save the Dickinson family reputation and stop a cold-blooded fiend from killing again.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2023
November 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
3
MB

More Books Like This

Death of a New American Death of a New American
2019
Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective
2009
Bookclubbed to Death Bookclubbed to Death
2022
Murder at the Marlowe Club Murder at the Marlowe Club
2020
Rueful Death Rueful Death
1996
Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon
2022

More Books by Amanda Flower

Assaulted Caramel Assaulted Caramel
2017
Matchmaking Can Be Murder Matchmaking Can Be Murder
2019
Farm to Trouble Farm to Trouble
2021
Crime and Poetry Crime and Poetry
2016
Prose and Cons Prose and Cons
2016
Lethal Licorice Lethal Licorice
2018

Customers Also Bought

City of Fortune City of Fortune
2022
Gone with the Whisker Gone with the Whisker
2020
Booking the Crook Booking the Crook
2019
A Counterfeit Suitor A Counterfeit Suitor
2021
Murder in a Scottish Shire Murder in a Scottish Shire
2020
Murder on Wall Street Murder on Wall Street
2021

Other Books in This Series