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T E Kinsey has taken us on many adventures re-exploring the quaint and murder-prone British countryside in his Lady Hardcastle Mystery series, and in the latest novel, Death Beside the Seaside , he tries to give his characters a break they were long overdue for. Needless to say, wherever Lady Hardcastle and her trusty maid Flo go, death seems to follow, and this time around they have to investigate the disappearance of their fellow hotel guests, topped off by a grisly murder, marking only the start of the ghastly affair.

T E Kinsey hopefully still has miles to go for his Lady Hardcastle Mystery Series, having taken many of us back to a simpler time when sleuthing was honourable work. In the fifth book in the series, titled The Burning Issue of the Day , we follow Lady Hardcastle as she takes on the case of a suffragette accused of having started a fire which ended up killing a journalist. Despite the case against her client being strong, Lady Hardcastle's experience tells her there is more than meets the eye here.

T E Kinsey has been doing a remarkable job at creating a new household name among sleuths with Lady Hardcastle. In A Picture of Murder , the fourth book in the series, we follow the Lady and her trusty maid Flo as they investigate a string of murdered actors during a grand Halloween celebration in the small village of Littleton Cotterell.

T E Kinsey has given murder mystery fans a whole lot of material to go through in his Lady Hardcastle Mystery Series , with the third book, Death Around the Bend , carrying on the adventures of our beloved protagonist in the same vein. Having been invited to a country estate alongside her trusty maid Florence, Lady Hardcastle witnesses the seemingly accidental death of a race car driver... only to learn soon after he was victim of foul play.

T E Kinsey has certainly brought back the charm of older murder mysteries with the Lady Hardcastle series, taking us back to a time with a simpler appeal. In the Market for Murder is the second book in the ongoing series, and it follows Lady Hardcastle who, as is tradition, is trying to enjoy a little vacation only to stumble headfirst into a murder. A local farmer turns up dead in the pub, and as Lady Hardcastle delves deeper into it with her trusty maid Florence, a world of utter strangeness opens up to them.

Few authors have had the success T E Kinsey did with his first novel, A Quiet Life in the Country , the first entry in the Lady Hardcastle Mystery series. Presenting us with the Lady herself, an eccentric widow accompanied by her maid and confidante in 1908 England, the story follows a murder investigation in the countryside, one the police are very close to bungling up. Thankfully, Lady Hardcastle is on the case, and few things, if any, escape her vigilant eye.