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About the book
Publication Date : 4 August 2026
Publisher : Severn House (Imprint of Joffe Books)
Genre : Historical Mystery
Page Count : 293 pages
Series / Standalone : Book 3 in the Dear Miss Hermione Mysteries
Blurb
Violet Manville knows everything about manners—and murder.
Violet is looking forward to taking some time away from the advice column she writes under the nom de plume Miss Hermione. She can’t wait to head off to Venice to spend some time with Eli Marsh, a mysterious, annoying, and extremely attractive American.
Little does she suspect that the specter of death will come calling at her front door in the person of Ash Kumar, a man she once knew—and loved—when she lived in India. She certainly doesn’t expect Ash to be arrested for his wife’s murder on her front door step.
As Violet tries to unravel the murder, she is pulled between between the two men. As the past and present become blurred, she soon discovers that the truth can be deadly.
About Anastasia Hastings
For Anastasia Hastings, there is nothing as intriguing as a fog-filled, gas-light street, the clip-clop of a horse pulling a hansom cab, and the possibility of murder and mystery around every corner!She has been lucky enough to bring it all alive in the Dear Miss Hermione mystery series which follows the adventures of Violet Manville, Victorian England’s most famous (and enigmatic) agony aunt.
Book #1, Of Manners and Murder, was a finalist for the 2024 Mary Higgins Clark Award presented by Mystery Writers of America, and The Wall Street Journal said it “evokes the shocking revelations of Wilkie Collins, the social acuity of Jane Austen and the comic melodrama of Oscar Wilde.” Book #2 of the series, Of Hoaxes and Homicide, was called “captivating” by Publishers Weekly. Under a variety of names and throughout a career than spans more than 30 years, Anastasia has published 70 novels.
The Secrets of Bones, written as Kylie Logan, was recently made into a Hallmark Mystery movie. Anastasia lives in Ohio with her husband and two dogs, an Airedale named Eliot Ness and his best friend (even if he doesn’t know it yet), Tequila Elizabeth, a Russell Terrier.
She enjoys various fiber arts including knitting and spinning, as well as exploring old cemeteries and in the summer, watching the hummingbirds while she contemplates her next murder.
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