A storm, a body in the library, and a killer who won’t stop at one!
When Lady Margot Blackwell agrees to host a visiting auditor, she expects tedium, not turmoil. Instead, she finds her household beset by a guest whose arrogance and prying questions leave everyone on edge. Before long, the evening’s storm gives way to a far grimmer discovery: a body in the library, slumped over the very books meant to keep the estate in order.
For Inspector Simon Grant, the case demands patience and evidence. For Margot, it’s personal—whispers of mismanagement threaten her reputation, and every suspect seems to have something to gain by the victim’s demise. Was it the desperate widow with too many debts? The suave solicitor with dangerous investments? The wounded clerk with more than one grievance to conceal? Or could the truth lie even closer to home?
With Stella, her irrepressible maid, providing both comic relief and inconvenient 'help,' Margot must navigate stormy nights, tangled scandals, and a drawing room full of suspects—each with a motive as sharp as a dagger.
But as she digs deeper, Margot begins to sense that someone is watching her every move—and if the killer isn’t unmasked soon, the next body discovered at Blackwell Manor may very well be her own.
