Fidelis Morgan crafts compelling mystery novels featuring the extraordinary Countess Ashby dela Zouche and a cast of unforgettable characters. Her writing has been lauded with comparisons to 'A 17th century Armistead Maupin,' 'Flashman for Girls,' 'A bawdy PG Wodehouse,' and 'Cagney and Lacey in Corsets.' Beyond her fiction, Morgan is also an accomplished historian, having published influential non-fiction works primarily focused on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her latest suspense novel offers a modern mystery.
An unlikely chaperone, the Countess Ashby de la Zouche is disappointed to find that the exiled English Court at St Germain is not a den of iniquity. As sleuths however, she and her maid find danger - investigating a plot against three kings and in an encounter with a mysterious Bastille prisoner.
London 1699. Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham, former mistress to Charles II, is an aristocrat on her uppers. Cast into the Fleet Prison, she is forced to turn to journalism. But the Countess and her maidservant encounter more intrigue than they bargained for.
Fidelis Morgan, geboren 1952, arbeitete als Schauspielerin und ist Expertin für historische Theateraufführungen. Sie hat bereits ein Sachbuch über berühmte Frauen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts geschrieben. Alice Jakubeit übersetzt Romane, Sachbücher und Reportagen aus dem Englischen und Spanischen, u. a. Alexander McCall Smith, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, Brian McGilloway und Eva García Sáenz. Sie lebt in Düsseldorf.
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