A Coveted Heiress: An Historical Mystery (The Isabella Hartwell Society Mysteries)

Set in 1890s London, A Coveted Heiress follows Isabella Hartwell, a Gilded Age American heiress with a sharp tongue, sharper instincts, and very little patience for being underestimated. London society is still deciding what to make of Isabella Hartwell. She is wealthy, unmarried, American, and entirely too independent for comfort. When she attends an exclusive private event at Harrods, she expects spectacle, gossip, and perhaps a little matchmaking. She does not expect death. At first, the tragedy appears to be a dreadful accident within the store’s glittering walls. But Isabella notices details others overlook and soon suspects that something far more deliberate has occurred. As she investigates, she uncovers a world of concealed debts, private bargains, bruised pride, and respectable people desperate to keep ruin out of sight.