Dying in the wool - Frances Brody

Bridgestead is a peaceful spot.

Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens.

Until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing.

Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father.

Who better to investigate than Kate Shackleton? Reminiscent of Dorothy L.

Sayers and Agatha Christie with a thoroughly likeable protagonist and a plot that held me to the end.

--Mignon F.

Ballard, author of the Miss Dimple Kilpatrick Mystery Series Dying in the Wool ] introduces a refreshingly complex heroine and adds a fine feeling for the postwar period.

-- Kirkus Reviews Take one quiet Yorkshire village Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart.

Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens.

Add a measure of mystery Until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again.

A sprinkling of scandal Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father.

Has he run off with his mistress, or was he murdered for his mounting coffers? And Kate Shackleton--amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles.

So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance in this charming traditional mystery by Frances Brody? But as Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed.