Today I am delighted to back on tour with Bookouture for the latest in The Lady Swift Murder Mystery series.

Synopsis

Glitzy parties, sightseeing at the Statue of Liberty and strolls through Central Park with Gladstone the bulldog… Lady Eleanor Swift is loving her first trip to the city that never sleeps, until she witnesses a murder!

After crossing from England on the SS Celestiana, Lady Eleanor Swift sets up her home-away-from-home in a lavish apartment in New York City. She is soon the toast of the town, with no high-class soirée complete without her presence. Of course, she drags her butler Clifford and Gladstone the bulldog along to every party too.

But when she witnesses the charming doorman of her building, Marty, knocked down and killed in a hit-and-run, she finds fashionable society suddenly closes rank. The only local detective interested in helping her find the culprit is street-smart beat cop, Officer Balowski.

Resolved to get justice for Marty and his family, Eleanor searches Marty’s tiny apartment and is shocked to find five rolls of banknotes tucked under the floorboards. Money talks, but Marty was struggling to make ends meet, so where did the cash come from?

The next day, wealthy entrepreneur and flashy philanderer Ogden P. Dellaney – a man Marty used to work for – is found dead downtown, miles away from his swanky Upper East Side mansion. Eleanor and Balowski are sure the deaths are connected, but not even Dellaney’s wife is willing to answer their questions.

Then Eleanor is served with an eviction notice and Balowski is fired from the NYPD. It becomes clear that something is rotten in the Big Apple and Eleanor is determined to get to the core of the mystery before the murderer strikes again…

Murder in Manhattan is a fun, fast-paced and twisty Golden Age cozy mystery set in New York. Fans of Agatha Christie, T.E. Kinsey and Lee Strauss will be glued to the pages.

My thoughts

Another trip along with Lady Swift, Gladstone and her ever loyal troop of staff.  This time we are in Manhattan and Lady Swift’s holiday is not going as smoothly as she would have liked.  Not only is she committing her trademark faux pars everywhere she goes but once again a murder falls right into her lap – quite literally when a man is knocked down in the road.  The dying man’s final words ‘Why Mary?’ is enough to get her murder senses tingling and no matter what the local New York cops say, she is convinced it was no accident.  As always, her conviction that justice must prevail pushes her on to unmask the perpetrator.  With Clifford by her side, she begins to see a very different side of New York – one that is in the control of mobsters.  Not knowing who could trust, danger really is around every corner this time and I did wonder on more than one occasion how on earth she was going to get herself out of it.

I loved this new instalment from Verity Bright.  It was lovely to be back with Ellie, Clifford and the gang and to visit New York in the early 20^thcentury.  The city is a character in itself, and made the perfect backdrop for this latest novel in the series.  Another winner.  I can’t wait for them to arrive safely back at Henley Hall (and hopefully a step closer to the wedding of the year!).  This cosy crime thriller is a perfect summer read to dive into.

Many thanks to Bookouture for inviting me to read and review this title. As always, it’s been an absolute pleasure.

Author bio

Verity Bright is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing partnership that has spanned a quarter of a century. Starting out writing high-end travel articles and books, they published everything from self-improvement to humour, before embarking on their first historical mystery. They are the authors of the fabulous Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series, set in the 1920s.https://twitter.com/BrightVerity
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