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Murder at the Palace

N. R. Daws

It has been a night of festivities at Hampton Court Palace, with a soiree in the Great Hall. But when one of the ladies in residence doesn't answer her maid's call in the morning, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate.

What Mrs Bramble finds shocks the whole palace: Miss Philomena Franklin slumped over her bureau with a knife in her back.

With the police seemingly determined to bark up the wrong tree, Mrs Bramble decides to take up her own investigation with the help of Miss Franklin's maid. After all, as servants, they know just how many dangerous secrets and secret squabbles the seemingly genteel residents of the palace apartments harbour.

N. R. Daws

N.R. Daws is a long-standing Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Following the deaths of his father and uncle from heart disease, he became a volunteer fundraiser and was awarded an MBE for charitable services in 2006. An alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative writing school, he achieved Highly Commended in the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award 2019, where he met his agent, Nelle Andrew of Rachel Mills Literary. His first novel, A Quiet Place to Kill was published by Thomas & Mercer in 2021.