Nights of terror!

Murder in Berkeley Square (Lady Worthing Mysteries #3) by Vanessa Riley         

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Based on Agatha Christie’s novel of Ten Little Indians, Riley has once again given us a mystery that literally chills some of the victims and the reader to the backbone. Instead of the guests marooned on an island they’re snowed in at Berkley Square just before Christmas Eve due to a punishing blizzard.

Lady Abigail Worthing, her cousin Miss Flo (Florentina) Sewell and Commander Stapleton Henderson are enroute to a family Christmas in Cheapside. The Commander stops by Berkley Square to give his apologies for not attending the Magistrate of London, Lord Duncan Flower’s annual dinner, Night of Regrets, in honor of his dead first wife Anna Violet.

The group attending are all men, neighbours of Berkley Square. 

At the Square Abigail spies someone sitting on a seat in the square, a very dead someone. By now they’re snowed in and have to stay at Lord Duncan’s house.

Abigail has gained a reputation of being a highly intelligent sleuth. Here however, she and her cousin Flo feel the need to act as hapless women, the very thing the men all expect. Hard for both of them.

The next days are terror filled as guests keep being murdered. Prior to their death each of the men has a riddle from a Martinique rhyme sung by slaves as they were about to attack their masters. One of the guests had introduced the rhymes to make the dinner more memorable, maybe not as memorable as this.

The tension is high. Abigail and Henderson draw closer to each other in this latest murder inquiry.

We are left with Abigail coming to a decision that will change her life, or will she?

I’m hooked I’ve read all the titles in the series, and have high expectations for the next.

A Kensington ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.