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Peril at Pennington Manor - Tracy Gardner

By Tracy Gardner

Release Date: 2022-06-07

Genre: Cozy Mysteries

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Perfect for fans of Jane K. Cleland and Ellery Adams, the  second volume in Tracy Gardnerā€™s antiques-themed mystery series finds appraiser Avery Ayers sleuthing a murder in a castle.
 

Thanks to Aunt Midgeā€™s unlikely friendship with Nicholas Pennington, the Duke of Valle Charme, Avery Ayers and her associates at Antiques and Artifacts Appraised head off to their most glamorous assignment yetā€”cataloguing and appraising the contents of a castle-like mansion on the Hudson River. But regal splendor becomes a backdrop to mayhem when the precious Viktor Petrova timepiece disappearsā€”and housekeeper Suzanne Vick plummets from a parapet to her death.
 
Avery, her dad William, and colleagues Micah Abbott and Sir Robert Lane soon learn that Suzanneā€™s predecessor also met with an untimely end. Further, the housekeeperā€™s suspicious demise coincides with Averyā€™s discovery that many of the Dukeā€™s most priceless heirlooms have been replaced by fakes.
 
Detective Art Smith lends his expertise, but the suspect list encompasses the Dukeā€™s entire retinueā€”including his family. Could the killer be someone intimately familiar with the Pennington estate, such as caretaker couple Ira and Lynn Hoffman, the Penningtonsā€™ chauffeur Roderick, or even one of the heirs to the Pennington fortune?
 
Then the duke himself is injured in an inexplicable riding accident, and the clock swiftly ticks toward a reckoning with a cold-blooded killer. A criminal mastermind is making a desperate bid for ill-gotten richesā€¦can Avery bring the culprit to justice before her time is up?
 

Peril at Pennington Manor - Tracy Gardner

By Tracy Gardner

Release Date: 2022-06-07

Genre: Cozy Mysteries

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Perfect for fans of Jane K. Cleland and Ellery Adams, the  second volume in Tracy Gardnerā€™s antiques-themed mystery series finds appraiser Avery Ayers sleuthing a murder in a castle.
 

Thanks to Aunt Midgeā€™s unlikely friendship with Nicholas Pennington, the Duke of Valle Charme, Avery Ayers and her associates at Antiques and Artifacts Appraised head off to their most glamorous assignment yetā€”cataloguing and appraising the contents of a castle-like mansion on the Hudson River. But regal splendor becomes a backdrop to mayhem when the precious Viktor Petrova timepiece disappearsā€”and housekeeper Suzanne Vick plummets from a parapet to her death.
 
Avery, her dad William, and colleagues Micah Abbott and Sir Robert Lane soon learn that Suzanneā€™s predecessor also met with an untimely end. Further, the housekeeperā€™s suspicious demise coincides with Averyā€™s discovery that many of the Dukeā€™s most priceless heirlooms have been replaced by fakes.
 
Detective Art Smith lends his expertise, but the suspect list encompasses the Dukeā€™s entire retinueā€”including his family. Could the killer be someone intimately familiar with the Pennington estate, such as caretaker couple Ira and Lynn Hoffman, the Penningtonsā€™ chauffeur Roderick, or even one of the heirs to the Pennington fortune?
 
Then the duke himself is injured in an inexplicable riding accident, and the clock swiftly ticks toward a reckoning with a cold-blooded killer. A criminal mastermind is making a desperate bid for ill-gotten richesā€¦can Avery bring the culprit to justice before her time is up?
 

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