The Body in the Garden

A Lily Adler Mystery

By: Katharine Schellman

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

London 1815. Although newly widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in Lady Walter's garden.

Lily overheard the man just minutes before he was shot: young, desperate, and attempting blackmail. But she's willing to leave the matter to the local constables - until Lord Walter bribes the investigating magistrate to drop the case. Stunned and confused, Lily realizes she's the only one with the key to catching the killer.

Aided by a roguish navy captain and a mysterious heiress from the West Indies, Lily sets out to discover whether her friend's husband is mixed up in blackmail and murder. The unlikely team tries to conceal their investigation behind the whirl of London's social season, but the dead man knew secrets about people with power. Secrets that they would kill to keep hidden. Now, Lily will have to uncover the truth - before she becomes the murderer's next target.

©2020 Katharine Schellman (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

what a great book

it was a good clean fun book. it took a lot of different turns. I was suspicious of everyone in the book. : ) I can wait to read more books by this author!

EXCELLENT READ

LOVED THIS BOOK. THE CHARACTERS ARE CAPTIVATING, AND THE MOMENTS OF HUMOR SLIPPED IN AT JUST THE RIGHT MOMENT. THE STORY WAS INTRIGUING, AND, YES, WE CAN ALL FEEL SUPERIOR, FROM TIME TO TIME, AT HOW MUCH LESS MATERIALISTIC AND ARTIFICIAL WE ARE TODAY. (IF YOU REALLY THINK SO) I CANNOT WAIT TO READ BOOK 2.

Murder Adventure!

Clean story and fun murder mystery! I enjoyed the story line and I didn’t expect who did it!!
Nice narrator too.
I hope there is more books for this series! I will listen if there is!
Leslie M.

Enjoyable book

Great characters, liked the narrator. enjoyed the historical aspect of the story. will probably check out book in the series.

Not a cozy mystery

Real thought and portrayal of women’s issues, classism, and colonial bigotry. A nice group of twists and turns in the hunt for a killer. But no matter how much they laude Lilly’s intelligence and independence, I can’t stand the simpering, back stabbing, and false friends. I don’t even care now about the end as I consider how this deplorable society will treat the murderer’s family.
I would argue that the story might be better if they changed the time and community, but sadly so many groups of people are still this horrible.
In defense for the story, it is a historical not a cozy mystery.