The Mystery of Albert E. Finch * Callie Hutton * Victorian Book Club #3

A celebrated Victorian mystery author and her new husband must trade their romantic honeymoon plans for a high-stakes investigation when a wedding guest drops dead at their breakfast table.

The Story: Set in Bath, England, in 1892, celebrated novelist Lady Amy Lovell is finally marrying her fellow book club companion, Lord William Wethington. Their celebratory atmosphere shatters when guest Alice Finch has a loud, public argument with her husband, Albert—and falls face-first into her wedding breakfast dead from poison the next morning. Lazy local detectives quickly secure a low-friction arrest by blaming Albert, but Amy's writer instincts tell her the material logistics of the crime don't add up. Forced into a synchronized counter-campaign to catch the real killer so they can finally leave for their honeymoon, the newlywed sleuths navigate a treacherous web of high-society secrets and a shocking second body.

Perfect For: Fans of witty Victorian-era cozy mysteries, amateur sleuth pairings, historic English settings, and authors like Tasha Alexander, Deanna Raybourn, or Callie Hutton's own acclaimed catalog.