Lizbie Brown

Lizbie Brown was born in Cornwall and read English at Sheffield University. Married with two grown-up children, she has lived for many years in the Mendips south of Bath and taught English there before taking up writing full-time.

She has had a long career as a short story writer and published a historical suspense novel GOLDEN DOLLY in New York in 1988 before embarking on the Elizabeth Blair series of crime novels, which are set in the beautiful city of Bath.

She writes about the Bath that is familiar to her - beautiful, lively, quirky, touristy, contemporary and sometimes parochial - rather than the Jane Austen version of Regency bucks and sedan chairs.

Lizbie's interests include art, books, auction sales and filling her house with anything old and chipped and with a story to tell. She also loves travelling both physically and mentally.

An actress dies while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted.

When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to entangle them in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties - with undercurrents of malice and distrust...