The House on Graveyard Lane

Combining the best of Golden Age crime fiction with the pacing of a modern thriller, the next installment of the beloved Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mysteries will hook readers immediately with its shocking and gruesome first twist, then keep them turning pages almost faster than the bodies drop.

‘I want you to solve my murder,’ said the woman in white.

Rachel Savernake gave a sardonic smile. ‘Quite a challenge.’

The woman in white is surreal artist Damaris Gethin, and she’s invited a select group to the opening of her exhibit ‘Artist in Crime,’ held in the eerie subterranean Hades Gallery. Within ten minutes of Rachel’s promise to solve Damaris’ murder, the artist slips her neck into the collar of a guillotine onstage, and with the push of a button beheads herself in front of her horrified audience.

As Rachel looks into why the artist claimed she was to be a murder victim before killing herself, Jacob Flint—also in attendance at the Hades Gallery—conducts a separate investigation into the shady past of celebrated French beauty Kiki de Villiers, and her ties to notorious criminal Marcel Ambrose—recently arisen from his (faked) death and returning to Britain to pick up where he left off. Full of twists and turns, their two investigations eventually link, and the pair once again find themselves in mortal danger as they piece together what—and who—drove Damaris Gethin to take her life.