Lady Margot Blackwell Mystery

When every suspect is hiding a secret, Lady Margot must find the killer before the killer finds her.

When Lady Margot Blackwell accepts a flamboyant invitation from her bohemian cousin, she expects champagne, seaside promenades, and perhaps a scandalous painting or two. What she doesn’t expect is to witness the sudden, very public demise of Brighton’s most loathed social climber—a man whose grudges could fill a ballroom—and every one of them wanted him dead.

As whispers ripple through the glittering drawing rooms and candlelit dining halls, suspicion falls squarely on Margot’s cousin. Determined to clear her name, Margot plunges headlong into a world of veiled threats, dangerous liaisons, and enough skeletons in closets to rattle the Pavilion walls. But the deeper she digs, the more she realises that someone is watching her every move—someone who will stop at nothing to ensure their secrets stay buried.

Navigating artful red herrings, clever rivals, and a ballrooms’ worth of suspects (each with something deadly to hide), Margot must use every ounce of wit, courage, and cross-examination to uncover the truth. With her cousin’s reputation at stake, an inspector who’d rather she stuck to tea and scones, and a murderer who always seems two steps ahead, every twist brings Margot closer to danger.

When gossip can kill as swiftly as poison—and the hunter becomes the hunted—can Margot unmask the culprit before her own name is added to the scandal sheets, or will her next adventure be her last?

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When secrets take center stage, someone’s bound to drop dead.

Blackwell Manor has always been a place of elegance and whispered secrets, but nothing could have prepared Lady Margot Blackwell for the tempest about to sweep through its halls. When the famed opera singer Madame Celeste arrives with her entourage—a brooding composer, a sharp-tongued vocal coach, a slippery manager, and a fiercely loyal assistant—the atmosphere turns as taut as a drawn bowstring. Glamour, it seems, is only the mask for simmering rivalries and buried scandals.

When a shocking crime strikes in the dead of night, Lady Margot must navigate a maze of lies, secrets, and dangerous truths with the sharp wit only a true lady sleuth possesses. With her quick-thinking maid, Stella, and a reluctant inspector at her side, Margot soon realizes that every clue seems to point in two directions at once.

In a household where everyone has something to hide, how do you unmask a killer without losing yourself in the performance?

Step into a world of glittering deception, razor-edged banter, and a mystery that refuses to give up its secrets. The stage is set—will you take your seat at Blackwell Manor?

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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.

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This Christmas, peace on earth will have to wait—there’s a murderer in the drawing room.

When Lady Margot Blackwell reluctantly agrees to host the BBC’s festive broadcast at her ancestral home in Crayford, she expects little more than microphone mishaps, gossiping villagers, and too much brandy in the pudding. Instead, amid the carols and champagne, a popular guest collapses on air and the joyous broadcast turns to horror.

Trapped in Blackwell Manor by a blizzard, Margot finds herself surrounded by suspects: a jealous understudy, a nervous producer, an embittered engineer, and a passionate village vicar whose sermons cut close to home. Everyone had something to gain from the victim’s silence… and something to lose if Margot uncovers the truth.

With the local constabulary out of their depth and Inspector Simon Grant barely tolerant of her “help,” Margot launches her own investigation — armed only with keen observation, dry wit, and her irrepressible lady’s maid Stella Wickham, whose definition of discretion leaves much to be desired.

But as whispered secrets give way to threats, Margot realises the killer hasn’t finished their performance. Someone at Blackwell Manor is desperate to ensure that her own voice—and her heart—are silenced before Christmas morning.

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