M.C. Beaton: Our Lady of Pain (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry's latest client, Dolores Duval -- a vision of curves with a seductive French accent -- starts appearing everywhere at his side. And that changes everything.

In a fit of rage, Rose threatens Dolores, only to be found the very next day, standing over her dead body. The newspapers rush to convict her, but can Harry and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard clear Rose's name and put the real murderer behind bars?

M.C. BEATON, the British guest of honor at Bouchercon 2006, is a New York Times bestselling romance and suspense writer who has been hailed as the "Queen of Crime" (The Globe and Mail). She is the author of twenty-three Agatha Raisin novels, whose fans range from the actress Elizabeth Hurley to the Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as the Hamish Macbeth series. Born in Scotland, she now divides her time between Paris and the English Cotswolds.

M.C. Beaton: Our Lady of Pain. A Novel. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9781250022516 (February, 2013), 215 p., $14.99.

M.C. Beaton: Our Lady of Pain (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
Lady Rose Summer prides herself on not being a jealous woman - and she knows her engagement to Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ruse to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry's latest client, Dolores Duval - French, curvaceous, flirtatious - starts appearing everywhere at his side. And that changes everything.

In a fit of temper Rose threatens Dolores - only to be found the very next day standing over her dead body. Only Harry can clear Rose's name - and to do that he has to put the real murderer behind bars...

M.C. Beaton: Our Lady of Pain. C & R Crime, ISBN: 9781849012928 (September, 2010), 248 p., £6.99.

M.C. Beaton writing as Marion Chesney: Our Lady of Pain (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
THIS DEBUTANTE IS TO DIE FOR
Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry’s latest client, Dolores Duval—a vision of curves with a seductive Parisian accent—starts appearing everywhere at his side. And that changes everything.

In a fit of rage, Rose threatens the French siren only to be found the very next day, standing over her dead body. Ooh la la! The newspapers rush to convict Rose, but can Harry and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard clear her name, and put the real murderer behind bars?

"A sparkling series." -- Publishers Weekly

M.C. Beaton writing as Marion Chesney: Our Lady of Pain. This season the search for a husband is a matter of life and death... An Edwardian Murder Mystery. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 0312998376 (June, 2007), 215 p., $6.99.

Marion Chesney: Our Lady of Pain (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry's latest client, Dolores Duval -- a vision of curves with a seductive French accent -- starts appearing everywhere at his side. And that changes everything.

In a fit of rage, Rose threatens Dolores, only to be found the very next day, standing over her dead body. The newspapers rush to convict her, but can Harry and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard clear Rose's name and put the real murderer behind bars?

Filled with drawing-room scandal and murderous intrigue, Our Lady of Pain is a delightful addition to Marion Chesney's beloved Edwardian mystery series.

Marion Chesney: Our Lady of Pain. An Edwardian Murder Mystery. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 0312329687 (April, 2006), 215 p., $22.95.