MURDER AT THE WINTER BALL. A 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery - DAHLIA STORME

The coffee was fresh. The manor was glittering. And lord Ashworth Pendleton was, inconveniently, dead.

December 30th, 1924. Lady Charlotte Wrenwood arrives at Harrowfield Manor - a grand Jacobean estate on the snow-blanketed Yorkshire moors - expecting nothing more demanding than good food, an excellent library, and dancing with people who've had enough freshly brewed coffee to forget she runs a bookshop for a living. She brings one travelling trunk, one notebook, and Ptolemy, her magnificently opinionated Persian cat, who takes one look at the assembled guests and immediately begins forming his verdicts.

By midnight, Charlotte has found a body in the east wing conservatory, a Scotland Yard inspector has arrived with a slightly wrong tie and considerably sharp instincts, and the roads have been sealed by the worst snowstorm in a decade.

Someone at this glittering party put cyanide in a man's coffee. And now they're all snowed in together.

The suspects are charming, the secrets are layered, and the clues are buried - in a missing bag clasp, a thread of ivory satin caught on a velvet drape, and a thirty-year-old doctor's ledger that someone has been killing to protect. Charlotte has forty-eight hours, a houseful of people with things to hide, and the growing conviction that the most composed woman in the room is also the most dangerous one.

She's been here before. She knows how it ends. What she doesn't know - yet - is what it costs.

If you love clever plotting, warm wit, and mysteries where the sleuth is smarter than everyone in the room but still takes time for very good gingerbread, this is your next obsession.

Murder at the Winter Ball is the second book in the Lady Charlotte Wrenwood Murder Mystery series - a full-length 1920s historical cozy featuring:

Can be read as a standalone, but you'll want Book 1 afterward.

Curl up, pour the coffee, and tell your evening plans to wait.

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