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Tessa Arlen

Five Novels of Mystery, Intrigue and Suspense Set in WWII

By Tessa Arlen

October 30, 2019

The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams What is the British government to do with an abdicated king and his unpopular wife who both have Nazi sympathies and are living in exile in Paris when Germany invades? Send him off to the British colonial Bahamas as its appointed Governor! And it is here that Williams’s protagonist…

Tessa Arlen Excerpt: Death of an Unsung Hero

By Tessa Arlen

March 6, 2018

Brimming with intrigue, Tessa Arlen's Death of an Unsung Hero brings more secrets and more charming descriptions of the English countryside to the wonderful Lady Montfort and Mrs. Jackson series (available March 13, 2018). In 1916, the world is at war and the energetic Lady Montfort has persuaded her husband to offer his family’s dower…

A Death by Any Other Name by Tessa Arlen

A Death by Any Other Name: New Excerpt

By Tessa Arlen

March 7, 2017

A Death by Any Other Name is the 3rd book in the Lady Montfort Mystery series (available March 14, 2017). The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society. Promising to help her regain…

Death Sits Down to Dinner: New Excerpt

By Tessa Arlen

March 23, 2016

Death Sits Down to Dinner by Tessa Arlen is the 2nd installment of the Lady Montfort Mystery Series where a dinner party of London's elites turns deadly and Lady Montfort and Mrs. Jackson must find the killer before he strikes again (Available March 29, 2016).  Lady Montfort is thrilled to receive an invitation to a…

Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman: New Excerpt

By Tessa Arlen

February 4, 2016

In honor of Tessa Arlen's Agatha Award nomination for Best First Novel, here is an excerpt of the first chapter of Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman! Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the…

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