num_pages: 323
description: From the national bestselling author of A Grave Matter comes the latest riveting mystery featuring a most unusual and romantic (Judith Rock) sleuth Scotland 1831. After a tumultuous courtship complicated by three deadly inquiries Lady Kiera Darby is thrilled to have found both an investigative partner and a fianc in Sebastian Gage. But with her well-meaningand very pregnantsister planning on making their wedding the event of the season Kiera could use a respite from the impending madness. Commissioned to paint the portrait of Lady Drummond Kiera is saddened when she recognizes the pain in the baronesss eyes. Lord Drummond is a brute and his brusque treatment of his wife forces Kiera to think of the torment caused by her own late husband. Kiera isnt sure how to help but when she finds Lady Drummond prostrate on the floor things take a fatal turn. The physician called to the house and Lord Drummond appear satisfied to rule her death natural but Kiera is convinced that poison is the real culprit. Now armed only with her knowledge of the macabre and her convictions Kiera intends to discover the truth behind the baronesss deathno matter what or who stands in her way 
language: English
title: A Study in Death
publisher: Berkley