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Second Sons Mysteries Boxed Set, Second Sons Inquiry Agency Mysteries
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Second Sons Mysteries is a boxed set of three Regency-set mysteries featuring the coolly logical Knighton Gaunt, founder of the Second Sons Inquiry Agency, and the brilliantly intuitive Prudence Barnard. The boxed set contains: The Vital Principle, The Dead Man's View, Honeymoon with Death, and a special BONUS book, Christmas Spirit.
The Vital Principle
In 1815, an inquiry agent, Mr. Knighton Gaunt, is asked by Lord Crowley to
attend a séance with the express purpose of revealing the spiritualist as a
fraud. The séance ends abruptly, however, and during the turmoil, Lord
Crowley dies. Gaunt is left to investigate not only fraud, but murder.
Suspicion turns first to the spiritualist, Miss Prudence Barnard, but as
Gaunt digs deeper into the twisted history of the guests at Rosecrest, he
discovers more deadly secrets. Inevitably, long-time friends turn against
one another as the tension mounts and Gaunt is challenged to separate fact
from fiction.
The Dead Man’s View
When Eric Knibbs invites his second cousin, Prudence Barnard, to a house
party, she’s pleased to discover that she has a family, after all. Since her
father’s death, Pru thought she was alone and struggled to maintain her
existence without help. Unfortunately, their reunion is cut short when Eric
is found dead, hanging from a noose outside his bedroom window.
The coroner and his jury believe Eric hung himself, but Eric was afraid of
heights and could never have committed suicide in such a manner. He won’t
even allow the drapes to be opened in his bedroom, so how could he have
jumped out of the window with a noose around his neck? After a quick
examination of his room, Pru finds too many anomalies and can’t help
questioning the positioning of the body outside his window, facing the hedge
maze in his garden.
While Pru doesn’t have any answers, she knows her cousin was well-liked and
generous, so she seeks help from her old friend, Knighton Gaunt of the
Second Sons Inquiry Agency. Pru soon learns the maze had a dark past and
neither Pru nor Knighton are prepared for the strange paths they must follow
to discover what deadly truth lays hidden in the shadows at Kennington
Manor.
Was the maze in the dead man’s view
at the heart of the mystery or simply the killer’s ruse to suggest suicide?
Honeymoon with Death
On their honeymoon trip through Europe, Prudence and Knighton join a small
group of travelers to see the triple falls on the river Velino in Italy when
tragedy strikes. Their carriage breaks down on a remote road, they are
accosted by bandits, and escape only to find one of the travelers dead the
next morning in a ravine near the bandits’ ambush location. The mystery
deepens when they discover the victim is wearing another traveler’s cloak.
To make matters worse, the inn they are forced to stay in is reputed to be
haunted.
As Knighton and Pru investigate, they discover the other passengers of the
coach were not the strangers they seemed. Revenge, envy, and frustrated love
vie as motives, and Knighton is pushed to desperation when Pru is kidnapped.
He must use every ounce of logic and intelligence to find the killer and
free his wife before there is another death on the road to Rome.
Christmas Spirit
A blizzard envelopes the English countryside five days before Christmas,
stranding Eve Tomlin and her mother when their carriage shatters a wheel.
The women struggle through the snow, forced onward by a wraith-like figure
gliding through the trees. Exhausted, they find an apparently abandoned
house and stumble inside. They are confronted by Giles Danby, a guest at
Folkestone Manor. Danby ruthlessly tells the women they must go.
Their host has just been murdered. A killer is on the loose.
Or a vengeful specter, if they believe Danby’s father. A specter Eve may
have glimpsed in the woods.
Desperate to solve the mystery and remain alive, they can only hope the
Christmas Spirit isn’t searching for another victim.
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