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Book Series Details:
Book Series: The Henrietta and
Inspector Howard Novels by Michelle Cox
Category: Adult
fiction (18+), 200-400 pages each
Genre: Historical
Fiction, Historical Mysteries
Publisher: She Writes
Press
Release date: April 2016; April 2017; April 2018;
April 2019; April 2020, Oct 2022
Tour dates: Sep 26 to Oct
21, 2022
Content Rating: This book series is rated R. Books 1
- 2 do not have sex scenes, but they are implied and the content is mature
(prostitution, gambling, alcohol, murder, serial killer). Book 3 introduces
tasteful sex scenes between a married couple and there is one rape (not
graphic at all). Books 4 - 6 usually have 2 tasteful sex scenes in each
Swearing is present in all 6 books, but is minimal.
“Downton Abbey meets Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries!”
“Henrietta
and Clive are a sexy, endearing, and downright fun pair of sleuths.
Readers will not see the final twist coming.” ―Library Journal, starred review
“Fans of spunky, historical heroines will love Henrietta Von
Harmon.” ―Booklist, starred review
“Henrietta and Inspector Howard are the best pair of sleuths I’ve come
across in ages. A fantastic start to what is sure to be a long running
series.” ―Tasha Alexander, New York Times bestselling author
Book Series Description:
A GIRL LIKE YOU: Beautiful Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner
bar, Poor Pete’s, on Chicago’s northwest side. It’s 1935, but things
still aren’t looking up since the big crash and her father’s
subsequent suicide. Left to care for her antagonistic mother and seven
younger siblings, Henrietta is persuaded to take a job as a taxi
dancer at a local dance hall. Henrietta is just beginning to enjoy
herself, dancing with men for ten cents a dance, when the floor matron
suddenly turns up murdered. The aloof Inspector Clive Howard then
appears on the scene, and Henrietta unwittingly finds herself involved
in unraveling the mystery when she agrees to go undercover for him in
a burlesque theater where he believes the killer lurks.
Even as Henrietta is plunged into Chicago’s grittier underworld, she
struggles to still play the mother “hen” to her younger siblings and
even to the pesky neighborhood boy, Stanley, who believes himself in
love with her and continues to pop up in the most unlikely places,
determined, ironically, to keep Henrietta safe, even from the
Inspector if needs be. Despite his efforts, however, and his penchant
for messing up the Inspector’s investigation, the lovely Henrietta and
the impenetrable Inspector find themselves drawn to each other in most
unsuitable ways.
A RING OF TRUTH: In this second book of the series, Henrietta and Clive
delightfully rewrite Pride and Prejudice―with a hint of mystery!
Newly engaged, Clive and Henrietta now begin the difficult task of
meeting each other’s family. “Difficult” because Clive has neglected
to tell Henrietta that he is in fact the heir to the Howard estate
and fortune, and Henrietta has just discovered that her mother has
been hiding secrets about her past as well. When Clive brings
Henrietta to the family estate to meet his parents, they are less
than enthused about his impoverished intended. Left alone in this
extravagant new world when Clive returns to the city, Henrietta
finds herself more at home with the servants than his family, much
to the disapproval of Mrs. Howard―and soon gets caught up in the
disappearance of an elderly servant’s ring, not realizing that in
doing so she has become part of a bigger, darker plot.
As Clive and Henrietta attempt to discover the truth in the two
very different worlds unraveling around them, they both begin to
wonder: Are they meant for each other after all?
A PROMISE GIVEN: This third book in the Henrietta and Inspector Howard
series provides a delightful romp through the English countryside
and back.
Anxious to be married, Henrietta and Clive push forward with
their wedding plans despite their family differences, made worse
now by Oldrich Exley’s attempts to control the Von Harmons. When
the long-awaited wedding day arrives, there is more unfolding than
just Clive and Henrietta’s vows of love. Stanley and Elsie’s
relationship is sorely tested by the presence of the dashing
Lieutenant Harrison Barnes-Smith and by Henrietta’s friend Rose―a
situation that grows increasingly dark and confused as time goes
on.
As Clive and Henrietta begin their honeymoon at Castle Linley,
the Howards’ ancestral estate in England, they encounter a whole
new host of characters, including the eccentric Lord and Lady
Linley and Clive’s mysterious cousin, Wallace. When a man is
murdered in the village on the night of a house party at the
Castle, Wallace comes under suspicion―and Clive and Henrietta are
reluctantly drawn into the case, despite Clive’s anxiety at
involving his new bride and Henrietta’s distracting news from
home.
Delicately attempting to work together for the first time, Clive
and Henrietta set out to prove Wallace’s innocence, uncovering as
they do so some rather shocking truths that will shake the Linley
name and estate forever.
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A VEIL REMOVED: Murder is never far from this sexy couple . . . even
during the holidays!
Their honeymoon abruptly ended by the untimely death of Alcott
Howard, Clive and Henrietta return to Highbury, where Clive
discovers all is not as it should be. Increasingly convinced
that his father’s death was not an accident, Clive launches his
own investigation, despite his mother’s belief that he has
become “mentally disturbed” with grief. Henrietta eventually
joins forces with Clive on their first real case, which becomes
darker―and deadlier―than they imagined as they get closer to the
truth behind Alcott’s troubled affairs.
Meanwhile, Henrietta’s sister, Elsie, begins, at Henrietta’s
orchestration, to take classes at a women’s college―an attempt
to evade her troubles and prevent any further romantic
temptations. When she meets a bookish German custodian at the
school, however, he challenges her to think for herself . . .
even as she discovers some shocking secrets about his past
life.
A CHILD LOST: A spiritualist, an insane asylum, a lost little girl .
. .
When Clive, anxious to distract a depressed Henrietta, begs
Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he is assigned to
investigating a seemingly boring affair: a spiritualist woman
operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town who
is suspected of robbing people of their valuables. What begins
as an open and shut case becomes more complicated, however,
when Henrietta―much to Clive’s dismay―begins to believe the
spiritualist's strange ramblings.
Meanwhile, Elsie begs Clive and Henrietta to help her and the
object of her budding love, Gunther, locate the whereabouts of
one Liesel Klinkhammer, the German woman Gunther has traveled
to America to find and the mother of the little girl, Anna,
whom he has brought along with him. The search leads them to
Dunning Asylum, where they discover some terrible truths about
Liesel. When the child, Anna, is herself mistakenly admitted
to the asylum after an epileptic fit, Clive and Henrietta
return to Dunning to retrieve her. This time, however,
Henrietta begins to suspect that something darker may be
happening. When Clive doesn’t believe her, she decides to take
matters into her own hands . . . with horrifying
results.
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Book Details:
Book Title: A Spying Eye: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel
by Michelle Cox
Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 256 pages
Genre: Historical Mystery
Publisher: She Writes Press
Release dates: Oct 25, 2022
Tour dates: Sep 26 to Oct 21, 2022
Content Rating: R: There are some swear words peppered throughout (not many)
and 2 explicit sex scenes (tasteful, but more than a PG-13
scene)
Book Description:
In A Spying Eye, Clive and Henrietta
return to Europe in an attempt to resurrect their failed
honeymoon. While in London, they are approached by their old
friend, Inspector John Hartle, who convinces them to search
for the missing panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, a famous
Renaissance painting, of which Hitler’s top men are also in
pursuit.
Meanwhile, back in Chicago, Oldrich
Exley threatens to cut off financial support for the entire
Von Harmon brood if Elsie continues with her plan to marry
Gunther―a situation made worse by the sudden appearance of
one Heinrich Meyer, who claims to be little Anna’s father
and threatens to take her away. Desperate, Elsie seeks the
help of Clive’s sister, Julia, who is herself the victim of
domestic abuse and who has fallen under the spell of a
handsome Texas millionaire bent on acquiring a rare painting
from the Howard collection.
Clive and Henrietta’s
search takes them to Chateau du Freudeneck in Strasbourg,
France―the ancient seat of the Von Harmons and home to three
eccentric distant relatives. What begins as a wild goose
chase turns decidedly more deadly when several Nazi officers
also arrive at the chateau in search of a “valuable item.”
When Henrietta and Clive attempt to flee after Henrietta
uncovers a shocking truth, they are forced to trust
themselves to a suspicious French servant who seems all-too
willing to help . . .
Meet the Author:
Michelle Cox is the author of the Henrietta and
Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local
Lore,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten
residents. Her books have won over 50 international awards
and have been praised by Kirkus, Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Foreword, Elle, Redbook,
Brit&Co., POPSUGAR, Buzzfeed, and many others.
Unbeknownst
to most, Michelle hoards board games she doesn’t have time
to play and is, not surprisingly, addicted to period
dramas and big band music. Also marmalade. She lives in
Chicago with her husband, three children, and one naughty
Goldendoodle and is hard at work on her latest
novel.
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