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Overview: Get to know sassy Lady Camille Divine and her loyal maid Cecily Nugent as they travel the world, finding adventures and solving mysteries. Our girls are a resolute pair, refusing to give up … even when the police have!
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller Cozy, Historical
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THE CHRISTMAS TREE MURDERS – The Christmas trees in Knightsbridge sparkle with festive joy, and there’s nothing more fun than Christmas cocktail parties to ring in the new year of 1922.
Camille Divine, known as Lady Camille Divine, has decorated her little house in Birdcage Mews with glistening decorations and a beautiful Christmas tree, but she has more on her mind than the festive season. Lady Phoebe Carruthers begs Camille to investigate the disappearance of her personal maid. Women begin to disappear off the street, their bodies left under the Christmas trees that stand in front of London’s most popular landmarks. Something links the women who have been murdered and Phoebe’s maid and Camille is determined to find out what the connection is before another woman is murdered.
She realises there is safety in numbers, and that she can do so much more with a team of resolute women by her side, so she recruits some of our old friends, Carrie, Elsie, Dorothy and Ida to help her discover what happened to Phoebe’s maid, and why so many women are being murdered in such a brutal way.
MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR – London 1922. The Summer Ball is arranged. Camille Divine has received her invitation to Antonella Toignton’s home in Chelsea, the one she inherited from her father, where the Summer Ball will be held.
At first, Camille is loath to attend after promising herself a rest after her last investigation, but the envelope in which the invitation came also holds a letter from Antonella, one of Camille’s closest friends, begging her to attend the Summer Ball as she needs to speak with her urgently about some strange happenings at her new home. Camille sighs, knowing she doesn’t have the willpower to resist a mystery, and if her friend needs her help she will never refuse.
With the mid-summer temperatures reaching boiling point, and the demise of a guest at the Ball, Camille realises there’s a murderer amongst the invitees. Has Antonella requested the presence of a killer at the Summer Ball? And why do the family members and friends seem to suspect one another?
MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR is the second in the Camille Divine Mysteries series, a story of intrigue, strange goings-on, and murder!
THE BRIGHTON MURDERS – The week before Christmas – Brighton 1922
When Camille discovers that her estranged husband, Lord Henry (known as Harry) Divine has given her a boat house in Brighton as part of her divorce settlement, she decides to visit it before the Christmas holidays, anticipating work needing to be done after a long time away from Brighton’s delights. She takes her loyal maid, Cecily, with her, and drives down to Brighton in the new motor car included in the settlement. They make a jolly twosome, Camille and Cecily, both looking forward to a few bracing days by the sea, knowing it will be jolly cold, but still looking forward to a break away from the increasingly busy streets of London.
Camille describes the boat house to Cecily in glowing terms, remembering the wonderful times she and Henry, along with their daughter, Ottilie; then a baby, spent there, playing on the beach and drinking hot chocolate before an open fire in the evenings. Cecily is eager to arrive at the seafront house, but when they enter the rather ramshackle yet quaint dwelling, something awaits them that begins a cycle of bloody murder and an unravelling mystery.
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MURDER AT THE CHRISTMAS GROTTO
BOXING DAY – LONDON 1923
Camille has planned a visit to Selfridges, the celebrated department store in Oxford Street, London. The store is decorated like a winter wonderland she has heard tell, the epitome of sophisticated chic. After the intense few days she and Cecily had had in Brighton, followed by a hectic Christmas Day where board games and fun and laughter were the order of the day, she decided a trip to the Selfridges Christmas Grotto would be quite the thing, The centrepiece of Harry Selfridges Christmas store had been the talk of London, a pièce de résistance she had read in The Times. An exquisite theatrical event they should not miss. She felt that nothing would delight Ottiie and Amandine more. Accompanied by her loyal maid and friend, Cecily Nugent, they arrive at Selfridges giggling with excitement, but unknown to them their afternoon of delights was to take a very different turn. Yet again Camille and Cecily are called upon to utilise their sleuthing skills to find a murderer. But will our girls discover who turned the Christmas Dream into a nightmare? And will Christmas ever be the same again?
MURDER IN PARIS
Summer 1923 – PARIS
Camille decides it’s time to make her promised visit to Paris to see her old friend, Madame Tatou. She, Ottilie, and Cecily travel to France by aeroplane, a new experience for them all. They have a purpose in going to Paris, one that they hope will end in joy, but their plans are somewhat waylaid when Madame Tatou finds the body of her maid in a cupboard at her 7th Arrondissement apartment. The intrepid Camille, and her loyal maid, Cecily, set out to discover why Madame Tatou’s maid was murdered, who wanted her dead…and why!
MURDER AT THE CAFE BONBON
AUTUMN 1923
Chief Inspector Richard Owen dresses carefully at his house in Chiswick. He is due to meet Lady Camille Divine at Café Bonbon, a well-known nightclub, after a six-week separation when he decided to visit his late wife’s relatives in the South of France. He is due to go back to work at Scotland Yard after a two-month sabbatical, but he and Camille have some unfinished business.
When they last saw each other in Paris they were parted before Richard had an opportunity to tell Camille what was on his mind. Camille’s cook, Knolly, had been taken ill at Camille’s house in Duke Street in London. Camille had been desperate to return to England to see Knolly, her cook and one of her dearest friends, to ensure she got the best treatment. Richard knew how much she cared about her staff and reluctantly said goodbye.
Six weeks later and they’re both back in London. It’s the perfect time to tell her what he’d so wanted to tell her in Paris, but an incident at the Café Bonbon where a cigarette girl is murdered seems as though it will thwart his intentions yet again. Will Richard get the chance to tell Camille about his past, or will their involvement in another murder mean he won’t get the chance to discover if Camille, the woman he has fallen in love with, is the woman he hopes she is? Will she accept his past life, or will she walk away?
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