M. A. Lee Knihy

A young constable tracks treacherous traitors while a spinster seeks justice for her family's murder. Conrad Hoppock leaves his village and the girl he loves to join the London constabulary, where he hunts a master spy working for Bonapartist France. His investigation leads him undercover in a lawyer’s office. Meanwhile, Phinney Darracott, after the suspicious deaths of her sister and brother-in-law, is determined to uncover the truth behind the whispers of murder. Following a series of burglaries and an arson that destroyed her home, she travels to London, disguising herself as a cleaning maid in the same law office where Conrad poses as a clerk. Phinney’s niece, Elise, and street urchin Vic are also on the trail of clues. As Phinney searches for evidence in the dead of night, she unexpectedly encounters Conrad. Their intrigue deepens when a lawyer is shot dead while they hide nearby. Can Conrad unveil the French mastermind's identity? Will Phinney’s relentless quest put her in danger? Will the children evade capture by the underworld? As past and present murders intertwine, the stakes rise. This installment is part of a Regency mystery series where each story stands alone, featuring recurring characters and an ongoing battle against French espionage in Britain.

When Murder Paints with Blood Isabella Newcombe Tarrant must finish her commission to paint a portrait before she can join her husband in India. She travels to Greavley Abbey School in the sleepy village of Upper Wellsford. There she meets the young photographer Flick Sherborne, and they become friends. Then murder intrudes. Isabella and Flick stumble upon the body George Webberly, a teacher at Greavley Abbey School. He's been bludgeoned to death. Why would anyone kill a school master? Motives abound, and suspects increase. Fellow teaching masters. A former soldier haunted by the nightmares of the war. Three ladies were rivals for Webberly's attentions. Their husbands may have clubbed him and cracked open his head. A photographer. Three fishermen. A medic. The pub owner and his wife. The local constable. Who committed the murder? Can Isabella find the answer? Or will a murderer paint with more blood? A tangle of motives and hidden evidence complicate the unplanned murder case in Portrait with Death, an amateur sleuth mystery set in an 1920 sleepy English village. Portrait with Death is the third novel in the series Into Death, with artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant.

The Key with Hearts ~ Regency England. Suspense. Murder. Two hearts at odds.Married for money, not for love.Liza Myers pretends contentment with her new life at Myers Montford. Her money saves her new husband's estate. His nobility raises her status.When she barely escapes a toppling roof urn, Liza realizes someone craves her death.Who expects a convenient marriage to inconveniently cause murder?Relentless death provokes questions of trust and love in the suspenseful mystery The Key with Hearts.

When Agatha’s lover abandoned her years ago, she poured herself into her family’s property, Helmes Farm. The estate, though, is in financial trouble after mismanagement by three successive stewards. She needs someone honest to help. Jess Carter evaded arrest for smuggling. The smuggler’s fence offers him a job at Helmes Farm. Yet Jess discovers that Agatha actually owns the farm, and his loyalties are divided when she hires him as the steward. Then hatred burns into a fire in the night. The arson reveals an old murder. The vanished fiancé didn’t leave—he was murdered. Who is the arsonist? Who is the murderer? Are the arsonist and the murderer the same person? Or have two people been poisoned by hatred? Dangerous mystery is mixed with romance in The Dangers to Hearts , the sixth novel in the loosely connected Hearts in Hazard series of mysteries and suspense. Visit www.writersinkbooks.com for more information about the series and other books by M.A. Lee. The character of Jess Carter was introduced in the first Hearts in Hazard book, A Game of Secrets . Reading that novel will enrich your experience, but it is not necessary.

In The Dangers for Spies, a former double agent's past causes present dangers. Once the toast of Paris, Eugenie DesChamps lives in a bucolic English village, paints landscapes, and flirts with Charles Audley, a secretive cryptographer for the British government. Eight years ago Eugenie courted danger by stealing Napoleon's battle plans for English spies. When a French spymaster discovered her double game, she barely escaped with her life. Now that same French spymaster has stolen into England. His mission is to capture the cryptographer Charles Audley. Discovering the double agent who eluded him sweetens his assignment. A thirst for revenge drives the twisty romantic suspense of The Dangers for Spies, book 5 in the Hearts in Hazard series.