Death in a Stately Home
An English Village Murder Mystery

Kate Sharp is asked to fill in for the production researcher and attend Parkview Hall's Regency weekend event. Kate is sort of secretly thrilled to dress up in Regency clothes and experience something similar to that which Jane Austen would have known but the timing is bad. Alex's sister Grace has j......more

A good "read," an entertaining story with enough realistic elements to make it believable. I especially liked the stately home and the interesting characters who came to attend the Regency-themed party, a party that included a death. Heroine Kate Sharp uses her amateur detecting skills to discover w......more

This is the third entry in the cozy mystery Death on Location series featuring Kate Sharp, an American who has relocated to a small town in England to work as a location scout for a Jane Austen documentary series. As the book opens Kate is waiting with her lover Alex for his young sister (and ward) t......more

These are light & entertaining cozy mysteries with an American in England. Kate is a location scout now living in a small village & in a relationship with the fellow location scout she met in the first book. Kate is invited to a Jane Austen weekend at the local manor house to help the lady of the ma......more

rather 3.5/5 - this is the best of the 3 instalments I've read until now - the plot is excellent, with a subplot on the poison pen mails - the Regency atmosphere for clothes and staging was quite nice to read as well - I hope the other books keep the same pace......more