Title: England expects
Description: Set during the summer heatwave of 1953, 'England Expects' finds Mirabelle and Vesta investigating the seemingly unrelated murders of a racing journalist and a cleaning woman. Their searches lead them through Brighton Pavilion's crumbling passageways to the quad of a Cambridge college and finally into the shady underworld of Brighton freemasonry. And, while not on the murder trail, Vesta has to make some difficult decisions about her personal life.
Subjects: Fiction, Murder, Investigation, Freemasons, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction
Places: Brighton (England), Great Britain
People: Mirabelle Bevan
Time periods: Elizabeth II, 1952-