Kay Blythe

After a two-day train journey, peripatetic dressmaker Jemima Flowerday makes the final approach to her new job on foot, following the canal to Castle Gloaming, which stands in the rugged North Wales countryside overlooking the foaming River Dee. Jemima has come to clothe Mrs Cornelia van Doorn, a wealthy South African widow who has leased the castle from its impoverished...

When couturière-turned-sleuth Jemima Flowerday accepts a last-minute invitation to a 'Murder Weekend' at Firebrace Court, a crumbling Devon mansion perched on a storm-lashed headland, she expects nothing more than champagne, theatrics, and the fun of playing the daughter of a fictitious duchess. The whole thing is meant to be an absolute hoot. But the hoot turns to horror within hours....

This deliciously funny first in a new series of country house murder mysteries is full of 1920s flavour and introduces feisty dressmaker Jemima Flowerday. Jemima Flowerday combines her skills as a dressmaker and sleuth to solve crimes in the crumbling stately homes of 1920s Britain. 'A brilliant cosy mystery and a fantastic introduction to what is promising to be an...