Lady Darling Inquires After a Killer

A Cozy Mystery Novel by Colleen Gleason

Book 1 of the Lady Darling Mysteries Series

Subgenres:

Victorian London,
Historical Mystery,
Female Amateur Sleuth

Published 2025

Length 296 pages

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Witty Victorian mysteries starring a fifty-year-old society widow
Sleuths who prefer gardens, pets, and books to high society drama

Publisher Description

Lady Bridgerton meets The Thursday Murder Club in the first of a charming, Victorian-set mystery series from bestselling author Colleen Gleason.

Lady Darling is a woman "of a certain age." Fifty, to be specific—which, in the eyes of London society, makes her uninteresting, eccentric, and a little intimidating.

She's a widow. An empty-nester (all of her children very successfully married-off). She's titled, influential…and very, very rich. Now she just wants to be left alone to enjoy her pets and her gardens and her books.

Until someone turns up dead at a dinner party, and Lady Darling is on the scene. What's a smart, responsible, capable woman to do? Find the killer, of course!

A thrilling, witty romp of a mystery series, the Lady Darling books will find fans with readers of historical cozies, Bridgerton, and The Thursday Murder Club.

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