The Sudbury School Murders (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries #4)

by Jennifer Ashley, Ashley Gardner

Overview

Captain Lacey takes a post as a secretary at the Sudbury School in Berkshire, a school for sons of the wealthiest merchants and bankers in England. Lacey discovers as soon as he arrives that he's been hired for more than his letter-writing skills--a series of disturbing pranks have kept the school in an uproar, and the headmaster expects Lacey to discover the identity of the prankster.

The problems intensify when a groom of the school's stables turns up dead in a lock of the nearby canal. A Romany is arrested for the murder, and Lacey is the only person who believes him innocent.

As Lacey works to discover what happened, he gets drawn into the secrets of Marianne Simmons, the actress who'd lived upstairs from Lacey in London. Meanwhile the intrigue surrounding the murder becomes as murky as the waters of the canal itself and puts Lacey and Grenville into deadly danger.

Book 4 in the Captain Lacey Regency mysteries.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012408549
Publisher:	Ashley Garder / Jennifer Ashley
Publication date:	05/09/2011
Series:	Captain Lacey Regency Mystery Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	79,781
File size:	565 KB

About the Author

Ashley Gardner is a pseudonym for New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Ashley. Under both names--and a third, Allyson James--Ashley has written more than 100 published novels and a dozen novellas in mystery and romance. Ashley’s books have been translated into a dozen different languages. More about the Captain Lacey series can be found at the website: www.gardnermysteries.com.

Editorial Reviews

The mystery of the groom's murder is as intriguing as Gardner's bird's-eye view of the prejudicial 19th-century English justice system. This page-turning historical is thoroughly enjoyable.

RT Bookreviews - Sheri Melnick

The pace of the story is expertly set, moving along briskly and keeping the reader compulsively turning the pages. English country mysteries don't get much better than this.

Romance Readers Connection - Deborah Hern

The fourth Gabriel Lacey mystery is another compelling entry in this outstanding series.

Fresh Fiction - Suan Wilson

If you've enjoyed the previous three books, you won't want to miss this one.

Rakehell Reviews - Leanne Davis

The pace of the story is expertly set, moving along briskly and keeping the reader compulsively turning the pages. English country mysteries don’t get much better than this.

Deborah Hern