{"product_id":"mitford-murders","title":"Mitford Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A lively, well-written, entertaining whodunit'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLose yourself in the sumptuous first novel in a new series of Golden Age mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt''s 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouisa''s salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nurserymaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake - is killed on a train in broad daylight, Nancy and amateur sleuth Louisa find that in postwar England, everyone has something to hide . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten by Jessica Fellowes, author of the number one-bestselling \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e books, \u003ci\u003eThe Mitford Murders \u003c\/i\u003eis the perfect new obsession for fans of Daisy Goodwin, Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie - and is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebased on a real unsolved crime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An extraordinary meld of fact and fiction'' \u003c\/b\u003eGRAHAM NORTON\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''True and glorious indulgence. 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