Book description
As Halloween comes to the English village of Innisdale all manner
of trickery leads to intrigue and mortal danger....
American schoolteacher and literary scholar Grace Hollister has
extended her stay in the Lake District to do research and act as
advisor to a local production of The Vampyre, a play written by
Lord Byron's doctor. But when accidents begin befalling the cast --
culminating in the death of a society lady at a masquerade ball,
replete with puncture wounds on her neck -- it seems a real vampire
may be roaming the village.
If that's not chilling enough, Grace is being stalked and her
enigmatic love interest, ex-jewel thief Peter Fox, has been behaving
suspiciously after a rash of local thefts. Armed with little more than
her passion for poetry and a determined spirit, Grace sets out to
solve both mysteries...and to take her own bite out of crime.
Diana Killian is the author of High Rhymes and
Misdemeanors (available from Pocket Books). She also wrote The
Art of Dying and Murder in Pastel under the pseudonym
Colin Dunne. She is coeditor of the anthology Down These
Wicked Streets, and the founder of the Wicked Company writers'
community for mystery and crime writers. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Visit her website at www. girl-detective. net.
