A Lady & Lady's Maid Mystery Series By Alyssa Maxwell

A Lady & Lady's Maid Mystery Series by Alyssa Maxwell
Author Alyssa Maxwell writes the “A Lady & Lady’s Maid” series of historical mystery novels. The series features Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her maid, Eva Huntford. Together they bring killers to justice as they negotiate the challenges and changes of life after the Great War.

“Murder Most Malicious” is the first novel in the “A Lady & Lady’s Maid” series and was released in 2015. In post-World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and Eva Huntford step outside of their social roles and put their lives on the line in order to apprehend a vicious murderer.

December of 1918. While a tough year is drawing to a close, there’s a lot to celebrate for Phoebe Renshaw (nineteen years old) and her three

Not fully missing, however, while there’s macabre evidence of foul play shows up in these gift boxes that are given to Eva Huntford and a couple of others. Having overheard her sister and the Marquis in this heated exchange just the night before, Lady Phoebe takes a personal interest in solving this mystery.

While the local constable suspects one of the Foxwood Hall’s footmen, Eva and Phoebe follow all of the clues to a totally different conclusion. However both of these young women are going to need to think outside of the box in order to wrap this case up, before a cornered murderer lashes out with ill will toward them.

“A Pinch of Poison” is the second novel in the “A Lady & Lady’s Maid” series and was released in 2016. Phoebe and Eva encounter one uncharitable murderer at this charity luncheon that’s sponsored by this posh school for

Lady Phoebe, with Eva’s tireless assistance, has organized a luncheon at the school in order to benefit wounded veterans of the Great War, encouraging students to participate in the baking and cooking. However too many cooks do more than just spoil the broth, they add up to a recipe for disaster once Miss Finch, the headmistress of the school, gets poisoned.

The Haverleigh girls come from highly respected families, none of whom are going to countenance their darling daughters getting harassed by the local cops like common criminals. So Lady Phoebe steps in to handle the wealthy little debutantes with discretion and tact, as Eva cozies up to the staff. Did a teacher bear a grudge? Or did one of the girls resent the headmistress enough to do her in? And what about the school nurse, who is clearly shell shocked from her service in the war? Nobody’s above suspicion, not even members of the school’s governing body, some of whom had objected to Miss Finch’s “modern” methods.

However Eva and Lady Phoebe are going to have to sleuth with great stealth, or this cornered murderer might try and teach somebody else a deadly