Fans of romantic mystery could ask no more-except the promised sequel.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Julia turns sleuth over the violent objections of Brisbane, their relationship sizzling as they trade barbs and information.Ī sassy heroine and a masterful, secretive hero. And a ghost walks the Abbey’s dark passages. Soon Lucy is found holding a bloody candlestick above the body of Snow. Among the other guests are Julia’s sisters, Emma and Lucy, the latter recently engaged to wealthy Sir Cedric Eastley Eastley’s cousin Julia’s Italian friend Count Fornacci her uncle Fly and worldly Lucian Snow, his curate. Brisbane is accompanied by his attractive but apparently silly fiancée, a woman Julia is sure he could never marry. Julia is surprised to discover among her father’s guests Nicholas Brisbane, the enigmatic private investigator she had grown to love during the investigation of her husband’s murder. When Lord March sends for Julia’s brother Lysander, recently married to an Italian beauty, they all return home to Bellmont Abbey, a huge estate built 700 years ago as a Cistercian monastery. Lady Julia Grey (formerly March) is in Italy with two of her brothers, recovering from the murder of her husband and her own near-death in a fire ( Silent in the Grave, 2007).
When a sudden snowstorm blankets the abbey like a shroud, it falls to Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane to answer the shriek of murder most foul.The March family has the reputation of being wild as March hares, but when it comes to murder they are no fools. Certain of her cousin's innocence, Lady Julia resumes her unlikely and deliciously intriguing partnership with Nicholas Brisbane, setting out to unravel a tangle of deceit before the killer can strike again.
Not to be outdone, Julia shows him that two can play at flirtation and promptly introduces him to her devoted, younger Italian count.īut the homecoming celebrations quickly take a ghastly turn when one of the guests is found brutally murdered in the chapel, and a member of Lady Julia's own family confesses to the crime.
Much to her surprise, the one man she had hoped to forget – the enigmatic and compelling Nicholas Brisbane – is among her father's houseguests. Fresh from a six–month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters.
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