Sheila Connolly’s third Victorian Village mystery, set in the fictional town of Asheboro, Maryland, straddles a fine line between the past and the present. The town fathers and mothers asked Kate Hamilton to come home to save Asheboro from bankruptcy. She has made a worthy start in achieving her lofty goal to return Asheboro to…
Chapter 1 I looked at the faces of the people around the large oval table in the dining room of the Asheboro Bed & Breakfast—the place I was calling home, at least temporarily. I knew I should begin the meeting soon, but I was relishing the sight of my ragtag gang, assembled all in one…
Murder at the Mansion by Sheila Connolly is the first in the new Victorian Village Mystery series. Katherine Hamilton’s goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheboro, Maryland. Fifteen years later she’s got a degree in hospitality management and a great job at a high-end boutique hotel in Baltimore. Until, that…
Welcome back to Granford, Massachusetts, where apple orchard owner Meg Corey—now Chapin after her marriage to Seth—is settling into the post-Christmas doldrums by trying to find a replacement for her orchard manager who has just accepted a prestigious internship in Australia. Her friend Christopher recommends one of the grad students he teaches at the college…
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We start the book the very day after Meg Corey (now Chapin) and Seth Chapin's wedding as our newlyweds discuss what to do about their honeymoon. A leisurely road trip south from their Massachusetts home to see the buildings and fruit orchards of Monticello—with several detours for historic buildings and horticultural sites along the way—sounds…
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