The Bones in the Orchard

<p><strong>Award-winning author Patricia Rice brings you another light-hearted Regency romantic mystery set in Wycliffe Manor...</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>At Gravesyde Priory each new arrival is either a blessing-or a threat. . .</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades. Its new heirs are determined to create a welcoming home. Yet soon after the latest family moves into the nearby parsonage bones are uncovered in the orchard. . . and odd strangers arrive.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>When her curate father returns his family to Gravesyde for the marriages of the manor's heirs gawky spinster Patience Upton has high expectations-until her father is murdered. Shock at learning her father had a mysterious past leads to alarm that the killer may have been after his notebook which she now possesses.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>After the chapel is ransacked and a witness killed it's clear the murderer isn't done. Desperate to find the truth Patience accepts the aid of Henri Lavigne Wycliffe Manor's smooth-talking rake. Intent on saving his new home and family from danger Henri is drawn to the clergyman's guileless daughter but wonders if she hasn't reason to conceal the killer's identity.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> </span></p><p>Before there will be any courting much less marrying<span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> the inhabitants of the manor realize if they want a chance at a future they must hunt the killer themselves. But are they hunting one murderer. . . or more? </span></p><p> </p><p><strong>GRAVESYDE PRIORY MYSTERY BOOKS</strong></p><p>Book #1 <em>The Secrets of Wycliffe Manor</em></p><p>Book #2 <em>The Mystery of the Missing Heiress</em></p><p>Book #3 <em>The Bones in the Orchard</em></p>