Cover Reveal-Murder at an English Seance

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Jessie: In New Hampshire where the mood is festive even though the holidays are green rather than white!

Today I’ve decided it is the right time to share the cover for the next Beryl and Edwina mystery, Murder at an English Seance. What do you think of this one?

And here’s the back cover copy:

American adventuress Beryl Halliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport team up once again as enquiry agents to investigate a suspicious psychic in this historical English village mystery set just after World War I.

Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz.
 
Beryl’s aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances. After the church organist resigns to serve as musical accompaniment for the séances, the vicar’s wife hires the enquiry agents to expose the medium as a charlatan. Beryl is confident she can spot the fraud, having learned from Harry Houdini himself some tricks of the trade. The dubious Miss Dinsdale claims her spirit guide is an Egyptian princess whose mummy resides in a sarcophagus in the room. But the only body in the sarcophagus belongs to a murdered villager impaled with a dagger.
 
As the sleuths begin to investigate, Beryl discovers her plane has been sabotaged and wonders if there’s a connection. Whether in the air or on terra firma, Beryl and Edwina must go round a circle of suspects to divine the culprit . . .

I had a great deal of fun imagining my sleuths at a seance as well as buzzing above their bucolic village in a 1920s airplane. I would venture to say that both Beryl and I had a good time with this story! It is available now for preorder and will be released on June 25, 2024. I hope that you will enjoy their rollicking adventure as much as Beryl did!

Readers, are you a daredevil like Beryl or more of a homebody like Edwina? Are you some of each depending on the situation?

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Published by Jessie Crockett

Jessie Crockett wears a lot of hats, both literally and literarily. As Jessie Crockett she is the Daphne Award winning author of Live Free or Die and the nationally bestselling Sugar Grove series. As Jessica Ellicott she has received starred reivews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal for her historical mystery Murder in an English Village. As Jessica Estevao she writes the Agatha Award nominated Change of Fortune Mysteries. She loves the beach, fountain pens, Mini Coopers and throwing parties. She lives in northern New England where she obsessively knits wool socks and enthusiastically speaks Portuguese with a shocking disregard for the rules of grammar.

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  1. Congratulations, Jessie! I love the cover, and the story sounds super fun. I’m less of a risk taker than when I was younger, or maybe I’ve just changed the kind of risk.

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  2. Definitely more of a homebody here. My ultimate goal on Sundays is to not even have to open my front door until Monday morning when I leave for work. Not always possible but there are days when it does happen and I’m so happy to be AT HOME.

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    2. What a fabulous cover, Jessie! The colors are so vibrant! I still have a bit of a daredevil in me, mainly when heights aren’t involved!

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  3. First off, LOVE the cover and the description (plus I LOVE this series) makes me want to dive in reading it. Can’t wait to read and review.

    I consider myself a mixture of both. I like to think there some Beryl in me, but I lean heavy on the side of Edwina.
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  4. What exciting news! Fabulous cover and description—I can’t wait to read it next summer! I’m definitely a homebody like Edwina, though I have had some traveling adventures.

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  8. Great cover and the newest Beryl & Edwina book sounds intriguing, Jessie!

    Me, I am a mixture of both. I love to travel (spent 41 days away on 5 trips this year) but I am more cautious as an older solo adventurer.

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  13. I would like to be more like Beryl and have her confidence. But I also would like to be more like Edwina in the way she understands people and society. So I guess I’m stranded in the middle right now with a little bit of each. I think the two of them together make the perfect blend.

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  15. AWESOME cover, Jessie!!! Even if I did not know the book is written by you, I would buy not just because of the cover! I am some of each depending on the situation 🙂 Luis at ole dot travel

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  17. Love the cover, Jessica. I have been anxiously awaiting for the latest adventure of Beryl and Edwina. I look forward to the release.

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