A Place of Confinement: The Investigations of Miss Dido Kent (Dido Kent Mysteries)
In April 1807, Miss Dido Kent, a spinster almost past marriageable age and with no fortune, is compelled to accompany her Aunt Manners on a visit to Charcombe Manor. In letters to her sister Eliza, interspersed through the narrative, Dido probes one mystery after another. Why—and how—has Miss Letitia Verney, an heiress, disappeared from the estate? Why has Aunt Manners not been to the Elizabethan country home belonging to her brother, George Fenstanton, for 30 years? And why is Miss Gibbs, Letitia’s companion, the only one hearing the ghostly sounds at night? Then the gathering is drawn into the murder of Mr. Brodie, who had just traveled from the Caribbean, perhaps with a letter from Letitia’s father about Letitia’s engagement to Tom Lomax, the prime suspect. Convinced of Tom’s innocence and wanting help in finding Letitia, Dido begins a round of purposeful conversations with the others living at the manor, trying to piece the puzzle together. This fourth in the series will be popular with lovers of historical fiction as it combines a good mystery with gentle probings into societal norms during the Regency period. --Karen Muller