FREE: The Only Way is Larceny
About
One crown. Forty-eight hours. A theatre full of suspects.
It’s July. The company is staging The Nutcracker. And forty-eight hours before the centenary, the Sugar Plum Fairy’s crown has gone.
Chloe Essex has one performance left, a farewell she’s been dreading for months, and a diamond crown on loan from the most feared patron the company has.
Somebody in this theatre took it.
A jealous rival who’d take the role tomorrow. A prankster in the wings. A company that’s been at one another’s throats since rehearsals began. And if Lady Pemberton-Smythe finds out her heirloom has walked, she’ll shut the centenary down two days before it opens.
So Chloe’s got two days, a career’s worth of colleagues who are all suddenly suspects, and no intention of going out like this.
The Only Way is Larceny is the free prequel to the Chloe Essex Cozy Mysteries. It's the story of Chloe's last night on stage, and of the decision that takes her home to a village called Speckled Hill.
She's expecting a restful retirement. Speckled Hill has other plans.
Readers who enjoy Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin will feel right at home.