#9 Lady Fan Mystery

The Vengeance Trail

Elizabeth Bailey
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Join Lady Fan in her most dangerous case yet! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. Is someone from her past trying to kill Lady Fan…? 1796, England When Lady Ottilia Fanshawe finds herself launched into a river and fighting for her life, she becomes convinced someone pulled her under the water. And when a dead body washes up on the riverbank, her theory becomes a certainty. Lady Fan recognises the dead woman as someone connected to one of her past cases. Had the woman been spying on her? Was she Lady Fan’s attacker? If so, why was she killed? Lady Fan is desperate to unravel the mystery but her dedicated husband, Francis, is determined to keep her out of harm’s way. She is devastated when cracks appear in her marriage, but she knows she cannot give up her sleuthing if she is to protect herself and her family. Who is targeting her? And why? Can Lady Fan solve the mystery before everything she holds dear comes crumbling down around her…? THE VENGEANCE TRAIL is the ninth book in the Lady Fan Mystery historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century England. ‘The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives—and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey!’ - Meritorious Mysteries ‘Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work’ – She Reads Novels ‘They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well! Her heroine sleuth, Ottilia, is a fantastic character .’ - Historical Romance UK LADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES BOOK The Gilded Shroud BOOK The Deathly Portent BOOK The Opium Purge BOOK The Candlelit Coffin BOOK The Mortal Blow BOOK The Fateful Marriage BOOK The Dagger Dance BOOK The Unwanted Corpse BOOK The Vengeance Trail BOOK The Hanging Cheat
Genres: MysteryHistoricalHistorical FictionBritish LiteratureCrimeHistorical MysteryFiction
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