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Styx and Stones

Book 7 of the Daisy Dalrymple series

Daisy Dalrymple, accompanied by fiance Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, is asked by her brother-in-law to discreetly investigate poison pen letters for local villagers. When the pompous unbearable brother of the local vicar is killed by a stone dropped on his head, gossip has escalated to murder.

Genre
british mysterymysteryhistorical fictioncozy mysterycrime
Themes
murdermothers
Setting
20th centurybritishengland
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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