A snowed-in manor. A centuries-old curse. And a murderer hiding in plain sight.
When antique dealer Philomena Barker receives an invitation to a remote sixteenth-century manor house in the Yorkshire Dales, she expects roaring fires and rare collectibles—not a corpse in the parlour.
Trapped by a sudden snowstorm and cut off from the outside world, Philly and retired Detective Inspector Robbie Dawkins must unravel a mystery where everyone has a motive… and no one has an alibi.
The victim? Orlando Stark, a man with no shortage of enemies. The only clue? A strange card bearing a witch’s mark.
As tensions rise and secrets surface, Philly and Robbie uncover eerie links to a woman who vanished forty years ago—and a chilling local legend about a so-called witch who cursed the Deverell family centuries earlier.
The past and present are colliding at Deverell Hall—and if Philly can’t uncover the truth in time, someone else may not make it out alive.
Murder, mystery, and a Yorkshire manor steeped in secrets.
Philly Barker and the Murder at Deverell Grange is the third book in the Philly Barker mystery series.
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