The Grenadillo Box: A Novel

This "absolutely absorbing" Georgian-era mystery "blends historical detail with riveting crime drama" (Booklist, starred review).

New Year's Day, 1755. Nathanial Hopson, apprentice to renowned cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, is called to Cambridge to install a new library in the country home of Lord Montfort. But after a gun goes off during a dinner party at the nobleman's estate, Montfort is discovered dead on the floor of the library, clutching a lovely carved box of rare grenadillo wood...