# A Vicious Machination: A Regency Cozy - Hardcover

by **Lynn Messina** (Author)

**As eager as Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, is to meet her husband's newly discovered illegitimate half sister, she does not want it to happen like this: in the keeper's house at Newgate.**

  

Yes, that Newgate, the abject prison filled with squalor and misery to which Verity Lark has been consigned for murder. Found standing over the slain corpse of an old tormentor with a still-warm pistol in her hand, she is obviously guilty.

  

**It is an open-and-shut case with little for an unduly curious duchess to investigate.**

  

Except it all seems a little too simple and straightforward. The Runner, for example, who apprehended Miss Lark at the scene of the crime-it's awfully convenient that he just happened to be in the neighborhood at the very moment the gun discharged. Something else has to be at work here, such as a sinister figure lurking in the shadows to direct the action. Convinced of Miss Lark's innocence, Bea can conceive of no other explanation.

  

**Or is the prisoner really just the victim of a horrible stroke of bad luck?**

  

**The question plagues Bea as she struggles to figure out the answer to her most confounding riddle yet, for the stakes are higher than ever and distressingly personal.**

  

**Number of Pages:** 254

**Dimensions:** 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** June 28, 2024

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- **Price:** 32.35 USD
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