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A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis

22 January 2026 By Editor

When, in 1922, Vee Morgan accepts the job of gardener at a crumbling stately home in Wiltshire, she’s hoping for a fresh start where nobody knows her troubled history. But Harfold Manor is shadowed by grief and the memories of long-faded glory, its rooms haunted by the only surviving member of the family, Lady Arabella […]

Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

6 February 2025 By Editor

Paris, 1866, and when Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house-call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con. Their marks are the de […]

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