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The English Wife
A Historical Fiction Novel by Lauren Willig
Subgenres:
- Gilded Age,
- Historical Mystery,
- Family Secrets
This book is for you if you're into...
- Gilded Age scandals with murder at fancy parties
- Family secrets that upend everything you thought you knew
- Unlikely sleuthing duos digging into high society mysteries
From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.
Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria.
Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip.
But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad.
Bay's sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel.
Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips?
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