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Mitford Murders Mystery Series

Book Review: The Mitford Trial by Jessica Fellowes

By Janet Webb

February 2, 2021

The Mitford Trial is “inspired by a real-life murder.” Jessica Fellowes embeds an actual crime into the narrative of a consequential cruise taken by the two most controversial Mitford sisters, Diana and Unity. The protagonist, Louisa Cannon, was once maid to the Mitford sisters and she’s been and in and out of their lives forever.…

The Mitford Trial by Jessica Fellowes: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

January 8, 2021

Prologue 18 June 1933   Outside, the horizon had been lost to the darkness, with sky and sea both black as the underside of a dead man’s eyelids. No stars shone and the moon was hidden behind the clouds. Only the white foam that curled away from the sides of the ocean liner revealed movement,…

Book Review: The Mitford Scandal by Jessica Fellowes

By Angie Barry

January 20, 2020

The Mitford Scandal by Jessica Fellowes is the third book in the Mitford Murders series, where lady’s maid Louisa Cannon accompanies Diana Mitford into a turbulent late-1920s Europe. June 1928: Louisa Cannon, former nursery maid to the colorful Mitford family, is realizing the life of an independent career girl in London is more difficult than…

5 New Books to Read this Week: October 31, 2018

By Joe Brosnan

October 31, 2018

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Stephen King’s newest Castle Rock-set thriller joins Tasha Alexander’s latest Lady Emily mystery to make for a spooky week of books! See…

Pamela Mitford: The Forgotten Sister

By Jessica Fellowes

October 26, 2018

The second born of the six Mitford sisters, Pamela Mitford is perhaps the one most easily overlooked. Where her siblings achieved fame and notoriety for their novels, extreme political opinions, enormous stately homes, or racy living, Pamela was best known—if at all—as “the country girl.” In some ways, this made her the most interesting to…

Bright Young Dead: New Excerpt

By Jessica Fellowes

Set amid the legendary Mitford household, Bright Young Dead is the second installment in the Golden Age-style Mitford Murders series by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey books. Meet the Bright Young Things, the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts were a media obsession. One such game takes place at the 18th birthday party…

COVER REVEAL: Bright Young Dead by Jessica Fellowes

By Crime HQ

June 19, 2018

Set amid the legendary Mitford household, Bright Young Dead is the second in the thrilling, Golden Age-style Mitford Murders series by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey books. Meet the Bright Young Things, the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts enrapture the media. One of their games, taking place at the 18th birthday…

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