A country house on Halloween, an impromptu house-party, and a body discovered in a mysteriously locked room. Can Amelia unlock the mystery to unmask a murderer.
After discovering her uncle, Sebastian Ferver, had been murdered, Amelia returns to London to investigate. But before she can begin snooping, Daisy, her childhood best friend, calls her for help.
Amelia races down to the countryside to rescue her friend, only to find that Maud has gathered an ensemble cast of actors who hate Daisy's new boyfriend enough to murder him. And wouldn't you know, soon after her arrival, Amelia finds the scarred body of acclaimed British actor, and Daisy’s new beau, dead…in a locked room.
The police rule the death a suicide, but a devastated Daisy won’t believe it, and the combined intrigue of a mysterious scar, a torn up letter, an engraved lighter, and a pile of cobwebs persuade Amelia to investigate.
But when another guest goes missing, before they too turn up murdered, Amelia wonders if she is in over her head.
If you like Agatha Christie style villainous characters, spooky old country houses, and locked room mysteries, you’ll love A Killer Ensemble, the second in the Amelia Ferver mystery series.
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Matila Adler has always loved to read, and she particularly loves to read those old-timey traditional mystery writers, like Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers.
Matilda loves to travel - she has spent time in Africa and has visited every US state apart from Alaska - but she has always had a permenant home close to London. Until now...
She recently moved to the Balearic islands in Spain where the sun and the sea has fed her creativity to the extent that she feels ready to move from writing fantasy (under the name Jobie Baldwin) to traditional mysteries with a cozy feel. (That's cosy for her British readers).
Some might say that Amelia Ferver, Matilda's anxious but inspired protagonist, is a little too like Matilda to be entirely fictional. Matilda's keeping quiet on the matter.