Deadly Inheritance An Ursula Grandison Mystery 1

Accompanying American heiress Belle Seldon on a visit to her ancestral family home in Somerset, Ursula Grandison soon discovers that the decaying stately Mountstanton House and its inhabitants has many secrets, including a crumbling marriage and a missing dowry. When Ursula discovers the drowned body of the nurserymaid, she is determined to reveal the killer and, in doing so, reveals a tangled web of deception and adultery that threatens the reputation of the house of Mountstanton.

Janet Laurence is the author of the Darina Lisle culinary crime novels, which include Death at the Table. She is the former chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and was included in the Times' "100 Masters of Crime" in 1998.