In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, itâs not to be quite so simple.
At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people, including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, itâs not a question of who would do itâas most whoâve met him would be sorely temptedâbut who actually did do it.
Carola Dunn is the author of several series of novels, including Regency romances, the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries, the Cornish mysteries, and more than two dozen stand-alone novels.
Lucy Rayner is an award-winning British actress who earned her master's degree in history from The University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. The recipient of the Best Supporting Actress award at the Madrid International Film Festival, she has earned two Earphones Awards for her work in audiobook narration.