The Case of the Disgraced Duke

by Cathy Ace

Published by: Four Tales Publishing Ltd.

Cover Artwork: Four Tales Publishing Ltd.

Cover Photographic: Dyffryn House, Wales, via Dreamstime

Author, Cathy Ace, lives up to her name as an ace cozy mystery writer penning the delightful rebus series, The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries, a tapestry of extraordinary nuance and richness.

The women of the WISE Enquiries Agency; one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish and one English, will soon become as familiar as neighbours and as welcome as the best of friends. Their base of operations, the Chellingworth Estate is located in the rolling Welsh countryside near the quaint village of Anwen-by-Wye. A seemingly idyllic Welsh village where family values reign and traditions still mean something in a modern world, but what will the WISE women find when they peer behind the respectable net curtains?

Ace delivers another intense potboiler. While some of the WISE women try to unravel one puzzle from their base at stately Chellingworth Hall other members are embroiled in other distinctly different investigations. One of which is more complex, dangerous, and deadly, than anyone could have foreseen. The WISE women are on the case and nothing will get in their way . . . Or will it?

Henry Devereaux Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is terribly worried about a scandalous rumour of his allegedly murderous ancestor, the Thirteenth Duke, and the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are mobilized to do a deep dive into the family’s history.

You will share their trepidation and triumph; their anguish and elation as they are each faced with life’s challenging crossroads while they struggle to solve two disconnected murder mysteries.

The Case of the Disgraced Duke is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction with plenty of moving parts. Whether your preference is cozy or brozy mystery I highly recommend this emotionally charged Brozy Mystery.

The Case of the Disgraced Duke is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction, cozy or brozy mystery you decide, with plenty of moving parts. Whether your preference is cozy or brozy mystery I highly recommend this emotionally charged whodunit to whom.

Cathy Ace is the award-winning author of the classic/traditional Cait Morgan Mysteries featuring her Welsh Canadian criminology professor sleuth who travels the world tripping over corpses, now optioned for TV. Cathy's work has won the prestigious Bony Blithe Award for best Canadian light mystery, IPPY and IBA Awards, and has been shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, as well as the crimefictionlover.com "Indie of the Year" award.