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When a routine restoration ends in death, photographer Georgina Drake finds herself documenting murder instead of stained glass…
Georgina is photographing the restoration of St Edmund’s church when young craftsman Liam Jacobs collapses after eating homemade banana bread. Despite Georgina’s desperate attempts at CPR, he dies at the scene. An unfortunate allergic reaction seems the obvious answer, until tests reveal something far more sinister…
DI Colin Bradshaw swiftly takes over the investigation, but meanwhile, Georgina has uncovered a chilling historical parallel: over 150 years ago, the church’s vicar and his sister both died in mysterious circumstances, linked to rumours of an ancient treasure hidden beneath the church.
With a Victorian diary revealing dark secrets, whispers of a legendary tunnel, and a podcaster stirring up local treasure hunters, Georgina must navigate past and present dangers alike. But can she unmask a killer before the church’s deadly history repeats itself once more?
REVIEW:
I really like this series and how instead of sending us back in time like other time travel books, instead Georgina searches thru archives and records to find the actual words of the involved people in the past, to allow them to tell their story and how it parallels, or ties into the current archeaology dig that she is photographing. It's not Georgina's fault she just happens to be at the right place at the wrong time, to discover a murder, hear vital clues to solving it, and find the solutions! If you like lead characters with brains, and love history, you will love this series too!
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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