Book 17 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.
Australia, December 1900
Celebrate New Years Eve at Sherloch Lodge with Watson and the Countess.
Enjoy a murder-hunt game dressed up as a night of glamorous death.
Discover who murdered the young woman in the fern gully.
Before the clock strikes midnight, add two more bodies to the count.
Know that no-one is above suspicion: Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, A.J. Raffles, Bunny Manders.
Ask yourself: Who swapped costumes before the game started? Who swapped afterwards? Who penned the anonymous threat? Who killed the lyrebird? Who pilfered the ferns? Who started the fire in the fern gully?
Killer, thief, arsonist, pteridomaniac... this twist on a traditional, country house, murder mystery has suspects galore, but the hunt for answers turns into a race against time when a bushfire threatens to sweep all before it.
Autorentext
Anna Lord has long been fascinated by myth and metaphor, and the way they inform human thought. With an English and Philosophy degree focused on metaphysical poets and logical thinking there was only one creative avenue for her to follow: two rational detectives battling to make sense of a superstitious gas-lit world.
Anna's Ukrainian background, coupled with a love for whodunnits, Victorian settings, and Gothic characters, inspires her literary world and makes the books a joy to write.
The result is her new series: Watson and the Countess.
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