When a childish prank is linked to murder, Lady Anne Addison must investigate the death
of a young woman at the hands of a ghoulish
fiend . . .
Lady Anne and the Haunted Schoolgirl
Lady Anne Addison Mysteries #5
by Victoria Hamilton
Genre: Historical Paranormal Mystery
When a childish prank is linked to
murder, Lady Anne Addison must investigate the death of a young woman at the
hands of a ghoulish fiend . . .
As her wedding to Lord Darkefell approaches, Lady Anne is summoned by a local
girls’ school to help them with a young student troubled by ghostly
apparitions. She’s quick to respond, and quick to discover the trickery behind
the so-called ghosts. But despite her efforts to demonstrate to the student
that she’s been the victim of a cruel hoax, the young woman apparently jumps to
her death the very next night. Stunned and saddened by the turn of events, Lady
Anne soon realizes that what she thought was a prank was a dark precursor to
foul play.
Certain that someone closely connected to the school murdered the young woman,
Lady Anne promptly begins questioning students and staff alike to root out the
culprit. Confronting calculating young classmates, pompous instructors, and
even the shockingly callous relatives of the victim, she still feels no closer
to exposing the killer. Then a pattern emerges suggesting exactly who was
behind the foul deed, and Anne will put her life on the line to find justice
for a young woman who lost her own life too soon . . .
GUEST POST
What’s Up With
Victoria Hamilton?
By: (surprise!)
Victoria Hamilton
I’m assuming there
are many many readers out there who
have never heard of me. (I’m always surprised when people have heard of me. Or remember
me. LOL)
So I thought… how
about I introduce myself? I’m a writer. Your first clue may be that I am on a
book promotion blog tour.
But I’ve been a
writer for a long time. In fact this December of 2024 I will celebrate 25 years
as a published author. Sharp–eyed readers will find that Victoria Hamilton’s
first mystery (A Deadly Grind – Vintage Kitchen Mysteries #1 – Berkley) was
published in May of 2012. So what gives?
I wrote for many
years as Donna Simpson or Donna Lea Simpson. I wrote Regency novels – my first
published novel was Lord St. Claire’s
Angel – Zebra Books – December 1999. (All have been republished by Beyond
the Page Publishing and are available in ebook format only.) I wrote Regency
romances until the line closed in 2005, and I then switched to paranormal
historical romance, a 3-book werewolf series set in Germany 1796. (Someday
there will be a 4th!) I then
moved on to a historical romance mystery series with Sourcebooks, Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark.
Things didn’t work out with them all that well; Sourcebooks insisted on
marketing the series as a romance
series and kept pushing me to add more romance, and more sex! Not that there’s
anything wrong with that, but I had pictured the series as mystery, and wanted to keep it focused on that. We parted ways.
And I was free…
free to reinvent myself as the mystery author I always wanted to be, and thus…
Victoria Hamilton was born. I found my dream agent (hello and thank you Jessica
Faust of BookEnds Literary!) and started writing the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries,
then the Merry Muffin Mysteries, with a brief stint writing as Amanda Cooper
the Teapot Collector Mysteries.
I then got the
rights back to all of my Regency romances and started to co-publish them with
Beyond the Page. At that point it seemed like the right thing to do to make the
leap… I got the rights back to my Lady Anne Addison historical mystery series,
and we published them under my mystery author name, Victoria Hamilton. The
three-book series did so well that I decided to write a 4th, and now
we have a 5th, the current release, Lady Anne and the Haunted Schoolgirl. (Oh… and there is another
historical mystery two-book series: A
Gentlewoman’s Guide to Murder and Some Touch of Madness. I’m mighty
proud of them.)
It’s been a heck
of a ride so far… my lifelong goal was to become a published author, and I
can’t tell you how happy it makes me every day to accomplish again and again
that goal.
I hope you’ll look
into my other mysteries, and be warned… there is more to come! Double or Muffin Book #7 of my Merry
Muffin Mysteries will come out in early 2025, but first, this fall Vintage
Kitchen Mysteries #12, Cat Got Your Tongs, will come out.
Then I get to work
on the NEXT Lady Anne, Lady Anne and the Winter Witch, Lady Anne #6, for
2025. So much writing to get to! So off I go…
Happy Reading, everyone!
Praise for the Lady Anne Addison Mysteries:
“If you are looking for a historical mystery with romance, suspense, and a
suggestion of paranormal, then read Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark.”
—Fallen Angel Reviews
“[Hamilton] excels at imbuing her realistic characters with subtle depths . .
.” —American Library Association
“[The author] has set up a well-drawn Gothic horror setting here, so the
atmosphere is fantastic, what with it being chilling, mysterious, and menacing
all at once.” —Mrs. Giggles
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About the Author
Victoria Hamilton is the national
bestselling author of four mystery series: the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries; the
Merry Muffin Mysteries; the Lady Anne Addison Historical Mysteries and the
Gentlewoman’s Guide Regency Mysteries.
Victoria loves to read, especially mystery
novels, and enjoys good tea and cheap wine, the company of friends, and has a
newfound appreciation for opera. She enjoys crocheting and beading, but a good
book can tempt her away from almost anything… except writing!
She now happily writes about vintage kitchen
collecting, muffin baking and dead bodies – among other mysterious topics - for
publisher Beyond the Page.
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/598635.Victoria_Hamilton
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Thank you so much for hosting me. It was fun to talk about my career... LOL. I hope people enjoy the book and enter for the giveaways!
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