Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during October 2016 is …
Death Among Rubies by R. J. Koreto, a Lady Frances Ffolkes Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Crooked Lane
Lady Frances Ffolkes is incensed when she finds out that her dear friends Gwendolyn and Thomasina have been subject to vicious threats. Promising to uncover their attacker, she travels with them to Kestrel's Eyrie, the fabled estate belonging to Gwen's family. But soon Frances faces an even greater problem, when Gwen's father, a powerful diplomat, is stabbed to death with his prized ruby dagger.
Frances, with her loyal maid June Mallow at her side, jumps right into interrogating the estate's numbered guests: a charming Turkish diplomat with a habit of sneaking off into the night, a brash American heiress with lofty dreams of becoming mistress of the Eyrie, two gossiping widows with their own scandalous secrets, and Gwen's own aunt tasked with keeping the affairs of the estate in order among the chaos of the investigation. But as the case unfolds, Frances's righteous conviction might just be the very thing that leads danger — and even more death — to her own doorstep.
— Death Among Rubies by R. J. Koreto
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for October 2016. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of October 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
I very much enjoyed Lady Frances and her investigative efforts in Death on the Sapphire and am looking forward to following her exploits in this new murder mystery.
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