Death of an Unsung Hero by Tessa Arlen

Thanks to Sarah S. of Minotaur Books,  I am giving away one print copy of ‘Death of an Unsung Hero’ by Tessa Arlen.

Description Death of an Unsung Hero by Tessa Arlen

Lady Montfort and her pragmatic housekeeper Mrs. Jackson investigate a murder of a WWI officer with amnesia in the 20th-century English countryside.

Building on the success of her last three mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe in Death of an Unsung Hero with more secrets, intrigue, and charming descriptions of the English countryside.

In 1916, the world is at war and the energetic Lady Montfort has persuaded her husband to offer the dower house to the War Office as an auxiliary hospital for officers recovering from shell-shock with their redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson contributing to the war effort as the hospital’s quartermaster.

Despite the hospital’s success, the farming community of Haversham, led by the Monfort’s neighbor Sir Winchell Meacham, does not approve of a country-house hospital for men they consider to be cowards. When Sir Evelyn Bray, one of the patients, is found lying face down in the garden with his head bashed in, both Lady Montfort and Mrs. Jackson have every reason to fear that the War Office will close their hospital. Once again the two women unite their diverse talents to discover who would have reason to murder a war hero suffering from amnesia.

Praise Death of an Unsung Hero by Tessa Arlen

“The fourth entry by Arlen has enjoyable touches of whimsy… more satisfying than the typical country-manor murder.” ―Kirkus Reviews 

“Arlen’s satisfying fourth mystery set in early-20th-century ….The surprising solution will reward careful readers. The way Arlen integrates the traumas of WWI into a golden age whodunit plot will please Charles Todd fans.” ―Publishers Weekly 

“Historical details, notably medical treatments and women’s wartime work, add to this fourth entry in the well-researched Lady Montfort series. A winning historical mystery.” ―Booklist 

“The book is a delightful romp through a world of vividly eccentric characters in a beautifully described setting. It was pure pleasure to read, and it packed a punch.” ―Historical Novel Society

About Tessa Arlen

TESSA ARLEN, the daughter of a British diplomat, was brought-up and educated in the beautiful Chiltern Hills of England, when she was not visiting her parents oversees in Asia, India and Europe. Her books are set in the pastoral beauty of her native England among its flint-stone villages, softly rolling hills, and airy beech woods.

Greatest influences on Tessa’s writing are hands down Kenneth Grahame and Richard Adams for their wonderful descriptions of the beauties of the English countryside, and E.F. Benson and Nancy Mitford whose characters are so quintessentially eccentric and wickedly funny.

Tessa’s first book in the Lady Montfort series, DEATH OF A DISHONORABLE GENTLEMAN, has been nominated for a 2016 Agatha award for Best First Novel. The second volume in the series DEATH SITS DOWN TO DINNER was published in March 29, 2016, and A DEATH BY ANY OTHER NAME in March 14, 2017. DEATH OF AN UNSUNG HERO is scheduled for publication March 14, 2018.

Website: http://www.tessaarlen.com/

Twitter: @TessaArlen

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