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The Fateful Marriage (Lady Fan Mystery Book 6) Kindle Edition

by Elizabeth Bailey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 1,302 ratings
A brand new mystery featuring Lady Fan! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.

Wherever Lady Fan goes, murder follows…

1792, England

Lady Ottilia and Lord Francis Fanshawe are holidaying in Tunbridge Wells when they stumble across the scene of a horrific accident.

While visiting the High Rocks, a local tourist spot, a young woman falls to her death from the top of the climb.

It soon becomes clear that the woman is linked to the infamous Dowager Viscountess Lady Wem – an indomitable matriarch visiting Tunbridge with her extended family.

The young woman was at the centre of a scandal – Lady Wem’s grandson, Daniel, eloped with her three years prior.

As Lady Fan is introduced to the family her suspicions are aroused.

Was the fall a devastating mishap? Or could the woman have been pushed?

Lady Fan must unravel dark family secrets in her quest for the truth…

THE FATEFUL MARRIAGE is the sixth book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century London.

‘The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives—and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey!’ -Meritorious Mysteries

‘Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work’ – She Reads Novels

‘They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well! Her heroine sleuth, Ottilia, is a fantastic character.’ - Historical Romance UK

LADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES
BOOK ONE: The Gilded Shroud
BOOK TWO: The Deathly Portent
BOOK THREE: The Opium Purge
BOOK FOUR: The Candlelit Coffin
BOOK FIVE: The Mortal Blow
BOOK SIX: The Fateful Marriage
BOOK SEVEN: The Dagger Dance
BOOK EIGHT: The Unwanted Corpse
BOOK NINE: The Vengeance Trail
BOOK TEN: The Hanging Cheat
BOOK ELEVEN: The Killing Cave
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Esther Wane is a British actor and voice-over artist. After a career in finance, she fulfilled a childhood dream of going to drama school in London, and her life as an actor began at age forty. She has a lifelong passion for literature and can often be found browsing bookshops during any spare moments. Wane enjoys taking her listeners on a journeys in time and space and bringing the characters on the page to life in their imagination. She lives with her family and collection of books in Hertfordshire, just outside London.



Elizabeth Bailey is the author of more than a dozen Regency novels. She lives in England.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B083JH1G9Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sapere Books
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 23, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Elizabeth Bailey grew up in Africa with unconventional parents, where she loved reading and drama. On returning to England, she developed her career in acting, theatre directing and finally writing.

Elizabeth's latest venture is The Lady Fan Mystery series, published by Sapere Books. The novels feature amateur sleuth Lady Ottilia Fanshawe and a cast of family members including her husband and champion Lord Francis Fanshawe. She originally published Regency romances with Harlequin Mills & Boon and has many titles in her Brides by Chance Regency Adventures series, now also published by Sapere, as well as standalone Regency and Georgian romances.

Elizabeth also writes edgy women's fiction: Her dual time novel Fly The Wild Echoes, which deals with past lives, and For One More Tomorrow, where the ghost of the real Macbeth returns, protesting his villainous portrayal by Shakespeare. And she has published a romantic suspense novella, Silence of a Stranger.

Elizabeth lives in Sussex, England. She is still an inveterate reader with eclectic tastes and she spends her spare time helping other writers improve their craft.

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Customers find the book wonderful and enjoyable, with one customer noting it's better than the previous installment in the series.

"Each mystery in this series with Lady Fan is better than even the one before. It's a historical mystery based in Great Britain...." Read more

"...There were no sex scenes. Overall, I'd recommend this enjoyable novel." Read more

"...I, as always, highly recommend this series, and love this author. I look forward to the next book, as I need to know what happens to Pretty!..." Read more

"Another excellent entry into this series. You just have to love Lady Fan and her whole family...." Read more

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Customers enjoy the mystery quality of the book, finding it intriguing and well-plotted, with one customer noting how historical details were woven into the story.

"...It's a historical mystery based in Great Britain. The mystery is intriguing and keeps the reader guessing as to who done it...." Read more

"...Historical details were woven into the story to create the feeling of a specific time and place. There was a couple of uses of bad language...." Read more

"...The tragic murders, highly dysfunctional family and the struggles between Lady Fan and her beloved husband are challenging to read but engrossing..." Read more

"The characters are well fleshed out, the mysteries intriguing. I have truly enjoyed this series...." Read more

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"...The characters are very well developed, the dialogue is wonderful and there is always the murder/mystery that makes you want to just keep turning..." Read more

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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2020
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    Each mystery in this series with Lady Fan is better than even the one before. It's a historical mystery based in Great Britain. The mystery is intriguing and keeps the reader guessing as to who done it. The characters are interesting and each has their own unique quirkiness. Can't wait for the next one to come out.
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  • Debbie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Self-destructive family, but which one turned to murder?
    Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2020
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    "The Fateful Marriage" is a mystery set in 1791. This novel is the 6th in the series, but you don't need to read the previous novels to understand this one. This story didn't spoil the whodunit of the previous books.

    This was a clue-based mystery. Since the witnesses were also potential suspects and were being bullied by other members of their extended family, there was some difficulty discovering what happened. Lady Fan asked plenty of questions and used her observational skills, but she also got help from her husband and niece. I spotted the critical clue at the same time that Lady Fan did.

    The characters were interesting, and I cared about what happened to them. Historical details were woven into the story to create the feeling of a specific time and place. There was a couple of uses of bad language. There were no sex scenes. Overall, I'd recommend this enjoyable novel.
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  • M. G. Van Sickle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another delightful Lady Fan!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2020
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    Well, delightful might be a bit strong for this fascinating, thoroughly entertaining mystery! The tragic murders, highly dysfunctional family and the struggles between Lady Fan and her beloved husband are challenging to read but engrossing and plausible. I, as always, highly recommend this series, and love this author. I look forward to the next book, as I need to know what happens to Pretty! Read for yourself if you want to know what I mean by that.
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  • Sandra, Jackson California, Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2020
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    I love the Lady Fan books, Ms. Bailey writes such interesting characters. This time around Lady Fan must solve two murders that occurs in a despicable family. The old lady that runs the family turns out to be the mortal enemy of Lady Fan's mother in law. There is a tangle of lies, hate and deceit that Lady Fan must weave through to find the suspect. There is also young love blossoming that might overlap into the next book,, here's hoping.
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  • Allen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent series
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2022
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    The characters are well fleshed out, the mysteries intriguing. I have truly enjoyed this series.

    Recommend reading for those that enjoy this type of series.
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  • Pat. H
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lady Fan is back!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2020
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    I love the Lady fan books! She had the horrible luck of dead bodies falling at her feet. This time a body falls from the high boulders of a tourist attraction and lands right in front of her. The victim is the secret wife of the grandson of a powerful matriarch, and the evil one has said more than once she wished someone would do away with the girl. She rules her family with an iron tongue and has one of them taken the wicked Matron's words as an order? She knows Lady Fan's reputation for solving mysterious deaths and asks for her help. Be careful for what you wish for...the answer may not be what you expect.I
    This is a clean story see in the late 1700's in England. There is no foul language or steamy sex, just a great mystery solved by a great character and her friends and family.
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  • MNTV
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Restful Time/Never/When Murder Occurs
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2023
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    What is meant as a vacation of sorts is anything but as an accident turns into perhaps murder! But to prove it one way or another turns into a mystery. No one will talk or make a move to intervene until another murder takes place…and then the real work takes place.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fateful Marriage
    Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2022
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    I liked this book. I wasn't sure if I would as it started out boring, unlike the other Lady Fan books. It did get interesting later.
    I could not believe that a father would want to put his son in a mental hospital for grieving over his wife.
    All 3 of the deaths were really bizarre.
    I would recommend this book along with the other Lady Fan books so far.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely historical cosy mystery
    Reviewed in Canada on July 21, 2020
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    This is another highly entertaining book in this series. However, with this one, I had more trouble keeping the characters straight with considerable difficulty than usual. Nevertheless, the plot develops nicely and the main characters remain believable and sympathetic.
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  • Monique Harpignies
    4.0 out of 5 stars The faithful Fan family and noted retinue deftly pursue the culprits du jour
    Reviewed in Italy on October 24, 2020
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    I always enjoy Bailey’s writing, so fluently literate in Period reticence. The plot and characters are less than memorable however.
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  • kslaid
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great series
    Reviewed in Australia on September 20, 2020
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    This is the latest in the Lady Fan series and is just as good as the others. The characters are well developed and the plot carefully thought out. These are well written stories and I am hopeful of more instalments to come. Hopefully we will get to see a small arrival to really add further depth to the storylines, I hate it when an author doesn’t think they can keep a series continuing when they add personal complications. Such twists add so much and I am hopeful of a little addition to the family.
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  • Braveheart
    3.0 out of 5 stars Die Luft ist meiner Meinung nach raus
    Reviewed in Germany on March 16, 2021
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    Die ersten bücher der Serie habe ich mit Vergnügen gelesen, aber jetzt ist für mich Ende. Es ist langsam immer das gleich - und die einührung einer ziemlich nervtötenden Nichte macht es nicht interessanter. Schade.
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  • P.R
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and heart warming
    Reviewed in India on March 31, 2020
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    Both the actual mystery and the surrounding storyline about the main characters is pretty good. Worth reading and worth puzzling over too.
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