I would like to introduce you to a new book by Connie Berry (Author) of The Shadow of Memory and her book A Collection of Lies (A Kate Hamilton Mystery Book 5). I received this book in exchange for a review and It has been compared to Outlander giving me something new to check out. Having this new book allowed me to check out a new Authors work and to read a Mystery instead of watching them on TV although A Collection of Lies would make a fun movie.
I enjoyed the story of mystery and intrigue a lot. This is part of a series and the 5th book which can be read as a stand-alone but I can’t wait to purchase the other books so I can read the entire series. I like that the story is based on the Couples honeymoon in Devon. A history museum ask them for there help.
If what the Museum thinks about the dress is true will led to a new historic crimes exhibit the types of mysteries Kate likes. During a fundraising event gunshots ring out injuring the man who donated the dress. Only this gentleman may not be the person they wanted to shoot. Come and join us to see who did the killing and who was supposed to be killed and why.
About the book:
In USA Today bestselling author Connie Berry’s fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton follows bloodstained clues to discover the truth about the murder of a modern-day Victorian gentleman.
As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on Dartmoor will be the centerpiece of a new historic crimes exhibit—exactly Kate’s kind of mystery. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring the man who donated the dress.
The injured donor, Gideon Littlejohn, is a cybersecurity expert who lives and dresses as a Victorian gentleman, but everyone believes the real target of the attack to be another attendee—a controversial politician intent on rooting out local corruption. This belief is overturned when Gideon is found dead in a pool of blood. But then the politician receives a death threat. Who was the real target? Who would want to kill both a man with an obsession for history and a tough-on-crime politician? When asked to assist in the investigation, Kate races to discover the truth, as it becomes clear the killer isn’t going to come quietly
Meet the Author: Connie Berry
Connie Berry is the author of the Kate Hamilton Mysteries, set in the UK and featuring an American Antiques dealer with a gift for solving crimes. Like her protagonist, Connie was raised by antiques dealers who instilled in her a passion for history, fine art, and travel. During College she studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany and St. Clare’s College, Oxford where she fell under the spell of the British Isles.
In 2019 Connies won the IPPY Gold Medal for Mystery and was a finalist for the Agatha Awards Debut. She’s a member of Mystery Writers of America and on the board of the Guppies and her local Sisters in Crime Chapter. Besides reading and writing mysteries, Connie loves history, foreign travel, cute animals, and all things British. She lives in Ohio with her husband and adorable Shit Tzu, Emmie.
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