A Scandal in Mayfair

London, 1817. Lily Adler is no longer the grieving widow of earlier years. Her life is settled, and she now has a protégée of her own, Amelia. When a young woman asks for help with a contested inheritance, Lily agrees to look into it.

The request does not stay simple. Family secrets surface, a will has gone missing, and then a body turns up. What began as a question of who is owed what becomes a murder inquiry inside the drawing rooms of the Season.

Blackmail threats press in on Lily from several directions at once. Meanwhile a separate matter involving poisonous plants draws closer to the main case until the two meet. She has to work quickly, because the social round of balls and calls offers a killer plenty of cover.

This is the fifth book in the Lily Adler Mysteries, an amateur-sleuth series set in Regency London. The slow-burn romance between Lily and Captain Jack Hartley continues alongside the plot. Readers who like Regency settings in the vein of Bridgerton will find a similar world here, with a murder at its center.