Scandals, Secrets, and Murder: The Widow and the Rogue Mysteries

SCANDALS, SECRETS, AND MURDER: The Widow and the Rogue Mysteries--- New Historical Mystery from New York Times bestselling mystery author Maggie Sefton Powerful and corrupt U.S. Senator Horace Chester is stabbed to death in a Murder Bay brothel, wrapped in the arms of his evening's entertainment. His assailant escapes into the crush of unwashed bodies filling the streets of 1890 Washington's notorious red light district just a few blocks from the President's House. Amanda Duncan, wealthy young Washington widow, tries to ignore the clairvoyant visions that flash unbidden before her eyes. Since she couldn't save her own family, perhaps her visions can help others. Now, Amanda turns her back on Washington society and deliberately treads where no respectable lady would dare. This latest vision was most troubling. She saw a man stabbed to death by a shadowy assailant and a young girl screaming. Devlin Burke, English investor and sometime sleuth, is in Washington on family business and to rescue his nephew Freddie who's gone bankrupt in one of Sen. Chester's investment schemes. In a rage, Freddie attacked Chester in a crowded Capitol Hill hallway only days before the senator's murder. Freddie has no alibi and is now the police inspector's prime suspect. Devlin and Amanda join forces in a search to find Senator Chester's killer, which takes them from the Capital's poshest salons into the crime-infested streets of Murder Bay. Devlin's sleuthing instincts and Amanda's psychic detection lead them ever closer to the truth. But the closer they approach, the more desperate the killer becomes---and the more dangerous.

Maggie Sefton is the New York Times Bestselling author of the Kelly Flynn Knitting Mysteries. UNRAVELED, 9th in the series, made the New York Times Bestselling Hardcover Fiction List after its 2011 release. YARN OVER MURDER, 12th in the series was released June 2014. All of the mysteries in the successful series have been Barnes & Noble Top Ten Bestselling Mysteries and several have been New York Times Bestsellers as well. Maggie also has a Political Suspense trilogy set in Washington, DC. DEADLY POLITICS (2012), POISONED POLITICS (2013), and BLOODY POLITICS, November 2014. Maggie was first published in historical fiction in 1995 with ABILENE GAMBLE under the pen name Margaret Conlan. She had written over a million words of historical fiction before she ever wrote the first mystery. DYING TO SELL, with real estate agent sleuth Kate Doyle, was published by Five Star Mysteries in 2005. DYING TO SELL and ABILENE GAMBLE (E-Book title: ABILENE GAMBLER) are available online from Amazon, Barnesandnoble.com, and other major E-Book retailers. A new Historical Mystery set in 1890 Washington, DC---SCANDALS, SECRETS, AND MURDER: The Widow and the Rogue Mysteries---came out on E-Books in March 2014. Trade paperback edition is now available from CreateSpace