Death at the Milliner's
A Gripping Cozy Mystery of a Body in the Garden, a Suspicious Inheritance, a Festival Gone Wrong, and the Lie That Buried a TownBy Albert P. Oakhurst
Length7h 22m
About this audiobook
A hatpin through the heart. A locked room full of secrets.
And the wrong woman already halfway to the gallows.
When the cruel and wealthy widow Patience Whitlock is found dead in the back room of Brindle-on-Sea's only milliner's shop, the evidence lands squarely on the last person to serve her — quiet, reclusive hatmaker Clara Thorne. She had the motive. She had the means. She was the last one through that door.
She also didn't do it.
Clara knows the real killer is still walking the cobbled streets of her seaside town, probably buying pastries and tipping their hat at the constable. The problem is, no one else seems particularly interested in finding out who. The local inspector is eager to close the case before the town's summer festival turns into a scandal. The customers who confided their secrets across Clara's counter have all gone suddenly, conveniently quiet.
And Patience's will — recently and suspiciously altered — has left everything to a distant relative no one in Brindle-on-Sea has ever met.
As the festival preparations spin into chaos and the pressure to name a killer mounts, Clara begins pulling at the threads. What she finds beneath the surface of this cheerful seaside village is uglier than anyone suspected: a web of blackmail, a decades-old feud stitched shut with money and silence, and a secret so dangerous that someone is willing to kill again to keep it buried.
When a handsome London journalist arrives, offering to help her investigate, Clara faces a problem of a different kind. His help might be genuine. His story could ruin her reputation forever. And she's running out of time to figure out which matters more.
Death at the Milliner's is a charming and clever cozy mystery about a wrongly accused amateur sleuth, a village full of secrets, a suspicious inheritance, and the one thread that unravels everything.
Perfect for readers who love amateur sleuth mysteries, Victorian whodunits, small-town murder, slow-burn romance woven through the investigation, and the wit of Deirdre Oliver and Peter Boland.
A twisty, cozy whodunit you'll devour in one sitting.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Last Fitting
3Chapter 2 - What the Morning Found
4Chapter 3 - An Inspector from Away
5Chapter 4 - Sylvia’s New Coat
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6Chapter 5 - An Order I Never Wrote
7Chapter 6 - The Half-Past Bells
8Chapter 7 - The False-Bottomed Hatbox
9Chapter 8 - A Feather the Wrong Blue
10Chapter 9 - After Hours
11Chapter 10 - The Prodigal’s Ticket
12Chapter 11 - Suspicion Fits Like a Glove
13Chapter 12 - The Pin and the Tray
14Chapter 13 - Miss Frost’s Account
15Chapter 14 - Who Paid for the Coat
16Chapter 15 - The Dyer’s Day Book
17Chapter 16 - The Hand That Wasn’t Mine
18Chapter 17 - Evensong
19Chapter 18 - For Whom the Mourning Hat
20Chapter 19 - The Ledger’s Last Name
21Chapter 20 - A Trap Trimmed in Black
22Chapter 21 - What the Hat Knew
23Epilogue
24About the Author
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