In the Balance

The “marvelous” British governess-turned-sleuth helps a new bride who fears her husband intends to murder her (Daily Mail).

Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back to London when, with a violent shudder of the train, a young woman is thrust into her compartment. She’s beautiful, well dressed, newly married, and wealthy—a lethal combination.

In a state of shock, Lisle Jerningham explains that she fled her home in a hurry after overhearing a sinister conversation. Her new husband’s first wife died in an apparent accident, and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now, he’s broke again—and attempting to engineer a second convenient mishap. Miss Silver is unsure whether the drama is real or a figment of Lisle’s imagination—but if this frightened young lady is a target for murder, the killer will have to deal with the governess-turned-sleuth first.

 Starring a mature sleuth who “has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot”, In the Balance is a classic British mystery (Manchester Evening News).

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• Lonesome Road (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 3)
• Miss Silver Deals with Death (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 6)
• The Clock Strikes Twelve (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 7)
• Latter End (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 11)
• The Case Is Closed (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 2)
• Wicked Uncle (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 12)
• Dark Threat (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 10)
• The Key
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