Lizbie Brown Books

An actress dies while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to entangle them in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties - with undercurrents of malice and distrust ...

Elizabeth's children thought she was mad when she moved from the States to England when her husband died. But her quilt shop in Bath does good business, and Max, who runs the investigating agency upstairs, occasionally conscripts her to help him out. The new case is a murder the police have no leads, and the dead man's parents want to know who killed him. Max's attentions are elsewhere - as usual, a woman is involved - and Elizabeth seems to be on her own in this one.

Book by Lizbie Brown

The first Elizabeth Blair mystery. Elizabeth, a widowed American, left Virginia to run a quilt shop in Bath. There, she finds herself unofficially teaming up with Max, a PI whose office is above her shop. When allegations of embezzlement are followed by a murder, it seems anyone could be a suspect.

Shortly before Christmas a baby is found abandoned in a vicarage porch. Hours later, intrepid explorer Con Bartram is fatally stabbed in the same Wiltshire village. Are the two events connected? Elizabeth Blair brings her enquiring mind and her American curiosity to bear on the case.