Lady Rosamund and the Horned God: A Rosie and McBrae Regency Mystery

by Barbara Monajem

Overview

Widowed Lady Rosamund spends the first months of her mourning in the Lake District, where it's safe and peaceful, and murders are exceedingly rare. Luckily, she is rescued from this tedium by a house party comprised of playwrights, poets, and actors-an immoral set of persons with whom no respectable lady should associate. Even so, she hardly expected to wake in the wee hours to find one of the guests lying dead.

As if that wasn't troublesome enough, Gilroy McBrae is at the same party, masquerading as a footman to investigate a series of thefts. Was the sudden death an accident-or murder? Almost everyone had reason to loathe their unpleasant fellow guest. Rosie must set aside her confused emotions about McBrae and work with him to find the culprit before an innocent person is accused of the crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953789495
Publisher:	Level Best Books
Publication date:	04/20/2021
Series:	A Rosie and McBrae Regency Mystery , #2
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Rumor has it that Barbara Monajem is descended from English aristocrats. If one keeps to verifiable claims, however, her ancestors include London shopkeepers and hardy Canadian pioneers. As far as personal attributes go, she suffers from an annoying tendency to check and recheck anything and everything, usually for no good reason. Hopefully all this helps to explain her decision to write from the point of view of a compulsive English lady with a lot to learn about how the other ninety-nine percent lived in 1811 or so.

As for qualifications, Barbara is the author of over twenty historical romances and a few mysteries, for which she has won several awards. On the other hand, she has no artistic talent and therefore is really stretching it to write about an artist who draws wickedly good caricatures. But she's doing it anyway, because he's irresistible. To her, anyway. Not so much to the aristocratic lady. Or at least not yet.

Editorial Reviews

Barbara Monajem's Lady Rosamund and the Poison Pen is a delightfully spicy mystery, peppered with sharp wit and memorable characters, especially the titular Lady Rosamund. Rosie is a woman who seems to know her own mind...or does she? Battling her greatest fear, Rosie must discover the true identity of the mysterious caricaturist Corvus, and outsmart the author of the poison pen letters before it's too late. Indifferent to the tongue-clucking of her peers, Rosie is full of surprises. Fans of historical mystery are in for an entertaining treat. - Kelly Oliver, Award-winning, bestselling author of the Fiona Figg Mysteries.

[praise for Horned God]

Lady Rosamund and the Horned God is an excellent historical mystery-well researched and well written! As a psychotherapist, I was particularly intrigued by Lady Rosamund's OCD tendencies (accurately presented, by the way), and her realistic terror of being locked away in an asylum as mad, should others become aware of her behaviors. OCD and most other psychological disorders have existed for centuries. Portraying how one suffering from it might have coped in a society unforgiving of "oddness" gives the Lady Rosamund stories a unique twist. - Kassandra Lamb, author of the Kate Huntington Mysteries and the Marcia Banks & Buddy Cozy Mysteries.

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