The Red Monarch
On sale
4th November 2021
Price: £19.99
A new Brontë Mystery from Bella Ellis, a pen name for bestselling author, Rowan Coleman.
The Brontë sisters’ first poetry collection has just been published, potentially marking an end to their careers as amateur detectors, when Anne receives a letter from her friend Lydia Robinson.
Lydia has eloped with a young actor, Harry Roxby, and following her disinheritance, the couple been living in poverty in London. Harry has become embroiled with a criminal gang and is in terrible danger after allegedly losing something very valuable that he was meant to deliver to their leader. The desperate and heavily pregnant Lydia has a week to return what her husband supposedly stole, or he will be killed. She knows there are few people who she can turn to in this time of need, but the sisters agree to help Lydia, beginning a race against time to save Harry’s life.
In doing so, our intrepid sisters come face to face with a terrifying adversary whom even the toughest of the slum-dwellers are afraid of…The Red Monarch.
(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
The Brontë sisters’ first poetry collection has just been published, potentially marking an end to their careers as amateur detectors, when Anne receives a letter from her friend Lydia Robinson.
Lydia has eloped with a young actor, Harry Roxby, and following her disinheritance, the couple been living in poverty in London. Harry has become embroiled with a criminal gang and is in terrible danger after allegedly losing something very valuable that he was meant to deliver to their leader. The desperate and heavily pregnant Lydia has a week to return what her husband supposedly stole, or he will be killed. She knows there are few people who she can turn to in this time of need, but the sisters agree to help Lydia, beginning a race against time to save Harry’s life.
In doing so, our intrepid sisters come face to face with a terrifying adversary whom even the toughest of the slum-dwellers are afraid of…The Red Monarch.
(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Reviews
Praise for the Brontë Mysteries:-
Evocative and utterly enchanting
Bella Ellis is a very special talent
Brilliantly entertaining and original
More heart-warming than blood-chilling
Ellis's writing flows beautifully
Elegant, witty and compulsively readable - I think the Brontë sisters would have been delighted
A breath-taking concept . . . Fun, charming and intriguing
A delight
The Red Monarch is a superb mystery that kept me enthralled until the final page.
