Death at the Dance: An Addictive Historical Cozy Mystery

A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery, Book 2

By: Verity Bright

Narrated by: Karen Cass

A masked ball, a dead body, a missing diamond necklace and a suspicious silver candlestick? Sounds like a case for Lady Eleanor Swift!

England, 1920. Lady Eleanor Swift, adventurer extraordinaire and reluctant amateur detective, is taking a break from sleuthing. She’s got much bigger problems: Eleanor has two left feet, nothing to wear and she’s expected at the masked ball at the local manor. Her new beau Lance Langham is the host, so she needs to dazzle.

Surrounded by partygoers with painted faces, pirates, priests and enough feathers to drown an ostrich, Eleanor searches for a familiar face. As she follows a familiar pair of long legs up a grand staircase, she’s sure she’s on Lance’s trail. But she opens the door on a dreadful scene: Lance standing over a dead Colonel Puddifoot, brandishing a silver candlestick, the family safe wide open and empty.

Moments later, the police burst in and arrest Lance for murder, diamond theft and a spate of similar burglaries. But Eleanor is convinced her love didn’t do it, and with him locked up in prison, she knows she needs to clear his name.

Something Lance lets slip about his pals convinces Eleanor the answer lies close to home. Accompanied by her faithful sidekick Gladstone the bulldog, she begins with Lance’s friends - a set of fast driving, even faster drinking, high-society types with a taste for mischief. But after they start getting picked off in circumstances that look a lot like murder, Eleanor is in a race against time to clear Lance’s name and avoid another brush with death....

Fans of Agatha Christie, T E Kinsey and Downton Abbey will adore this tremendously fun cozy whodunnit, full of mystery, murder and intrigue!

©2020 Verity Bright (P)2020 Bookouture

No

I don’t want to write a review I just can’t seem to get out of app this is a pain. The book. Was good

Exciting

Another great mystery. The characters are truly intriguing and getting to know everyone better as this series continues

Really like learning snippets about her uncle and Clifford. There is an entire series there I think!

The narrator is perfect!

Well written, but fast reader.

Enjoyed the story but the reader read kind of fast so I had to slow it down just a little bit. Still, well worth it.

Fantastic!

I love this heroine. She is mad dash perfection. And balanced perfectly by the inimitable Clifford

Wonderful narrator!

Tells the tale rather than making it sound like she's "reading". Interesting voicing for the various characters. Made the story really come alive!