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When a school trip turns deadly at a restored windmill, photographer Georgina Drake finds herself swept up in a murderous plot…
Synopsis:
After a class of children falls mysteriously ill and their teacher dies from eating poisoned sausage rolls, suspicion falls on mill owner Louise Wilkins. And when Georgina’s beloved spaniel Bert eats the same contaminated food, the case becomes deeply personal.
Working with her aristocratic friend Sybbie and the ever-sceptical DI Colin Bradshaw, Georgina delves into the mill’s dark history and uncovers a chilling parallel: over a century earlier, the miller’s daughter was accused of poisoning a local family with arsenic-laced flour. Is someone using the Victorian case as a blueprint for a modern-day murder? With the poisoner growing bolder and time running out, can Georgina solve both mysteries before the truth is buried forever…?
Review:
This is the first book of the series I had read and it's an interesting one- is the miller to blame for bad flour causing sickness in a class on a field trip? Or is someone making her the scapegoat, trying to shut down the mill? For Georgina the stakes are high to try to figure it out, when her dog eats all her rolls, and while it keeps her from getting sick, her dog isn't out of the woods. When the local food inspector clears the bakery, Georginia tries to support the Mill bakery, but the same person is raising the stakes and suddenly it is a matter of life and death to find the suspect. With plenty of twists, this one keeps you reading!
About the Author:
Kate is the award-winning author of more than 100 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon, and in 2023 she began the cozy crime Georgina Drake series for Storm Publishing.
For her romances, she’s won the RNA Shorter Fiction Award three times (formerly Liberta Books Shorter Fiction, the Romance Prize and the RoNA Rose): for ‘A Will, a Wish and a Wedding’ (2021), ‘Bound By a Baby’ (2014) and 'Breakfast at Giovanni's' (2008). She's been shortlisted six more times for the award, as well as for two Romantic Times awards. For the crime: there's no on-the-page gore (well... not much) so, if you like her romances, you'll definitely enjoy the Georgina Drake mysteries because it's basically the Kate Hardy you know plus more secondary characters and a body or two (!). If you're not a romance fan, you'll enjoy the characters and unravelling the puzzles.
Kate lives in Norwich in the east of England with her husband, two springer spaniels (Archie and Dexter, the Edit-paw-ial Assistants who are the precursor to Georgina's Drake's assistant Bert), and too many books to count. She's a bit of a nerd (cough, understatement) who loves music, cinema, the theatre, ballet, history, science, cross-stitch and messing about in the kitchen. She loves doing research, particularly if it's hands-on (and even more if it means sneaking in an extra visit to her two grown-up children, now they've graduated from uni and left home).
Kate has also written bestselling local history books under the name of Pamela Brooks.
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