Tag: Murder at Rudhall Manor

Murder at Rudhall Manor by Anya Wylde

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Historical Murder Mystery, Cozy Mystery

“It won’t be easy,” Miss Summer repeated firmly, “for the world to adjust to your presence. England will have to shift around, make space, adapt a little, stand on its toenails and stay alert to be able to absorb someone like you… It may happen… Miracles are not unheard of.”

Lucy Anne Trotter has turned 18 and now she must vacate the orphanage that she has grown up in. She has been procured a job as a governess at Rudhall Manor. Three months into her position and the Lord Sedley is found stabbed to death in his bed chamber and a jewel necklace is stolen.

“Lord Robert Archibald Sedley, Lucy recalled, had been a belligerent fellow. A rotten creature who had been bottle headed substantially cracked and had possessed a voice that seemed to emerge from deep within his intestines to break through his cruel lips in a bellowing, reverberating sound.
A sound that had shaken the very air surrounding him and had held enough power to send a weak-willed creature shooting a few feet into the air in absolute terror.
Along with his commanding voice, he had also possessed a lusty temperament, a lineage that could be traced back a hundred years, and blood so blue that one was amazed to see his red cheeks.
He also happened to have been four feet, eleven inches tall.”