Murder on a Summer's Day by Frances Brody

Murder on a Summer's Day by Frances Brody

A Maharajah on the Moors
When the India Office seeks help in finding Maharajah Narayan, they call upon the expertise of renowned amateur detective Kate Shackleton to investigate.

A Priceless Jewel
But soon a missing persons case turns into murder. Shot through the heart, Narayan's body has obviously not been in the woods overnight. Who brought it here, and from where? And what happened to the hugely valuable diamond that was in the Maharajah's possession?

An Inexplicable Murder . . .
Kate soon discovers that vengeance takes many forms. Was the Maharajah's sacrilegious act of shooting a white doe to blame? Or are growing rumors of a political motive too powerful for Kate to discount?

Frances Brody's Kate Shackleton returns in Murder on a Summer's Day with another mystery that's sure to "hold the reader attention and make them continue reading into the small hours of the night" (York Press, UK).

FRANCES BRODY is a writer who lives in Leeds, England. She authored historical sagas before turning to crime with Dying in the Wool, the first novel in the Kate Shackleton series, for which she won the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin award for most regionally evocative debut saga of the millennium. Death at the Seaside, A Death in the Dales, and Murder on a Summer's Day are some of Kate Shackleton's other mysteries.