Penhallow

Author: Georgette Heyer

Format: Paperback

An original and suspenseful whodunnit mystery

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

'The greatest writer who ever lived' — Antonia Fraser
'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' — Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' — Joanne Harris

Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time.

The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems, at first, to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But Penhallow wasn't well liked. He had ruled over his estate with an iron will and a sharp tongue. He had played one relative off against another. He was so bad tempered and mean that both his servants and his family hated him.

It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death, Penhallow was, in fact, murdered. Poisoned. With his family gathered to celebrate his birthday, and servants that both feared and despised him, there are more than a dozen prime suspects. But which one of them turned hatred into murder?

Readers love Penhallow . . .

'Full of fascinating characters and plenty of vivid description - this one surprised me and actually made me cry!'

'Penhallow is one of my favourite Georgette Heyer novels.'

'A real tour-de-force.'

'Pure genius!'

'Second read, another 5 stars. An original and highly suspenseful mystery, nothing like anything else I have ever read.'

About the Author

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

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