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A TERRIBLY NASTY BUSINESS

Julia Seales

A Beatrice Steele Novel

London provides fabulously deadly opportunities for a fledgling inspector in the twisty follow-up to Julia Seales's bestselling debut, A MOST AGREEABLE MURDER hailed by People as "delightful cocktail.of wit, hilarity, and suspense!"

Julia had always planned for her next book to be set in a completely different world. But following the passionate reception of her debut book, every time she sat down to write, she found herself missing Beatrice Steele, her plucky, independent heroine.

She didn't feel like Beatrice's story was over, and readers felt similarly. So she decided to build another installment, but this time, to go even bigger. To send Beatrice out of squelch holes in her small town of Swampshire and into summer in the big city.

To break the mystery out of the locked room and let it spill all over the ladies' luncheons, secret societies, and odd operas of Beatrice's new neighborhood in London, where she has moved with her trusty chaperone, Miss Bolton, to open a new investigative practice alongside her partner in solving crime, the prickly Inspector Drake.

She has crafted yet another twisty, fun murder mystery with an all-new cast of spirited, zany characters and it can be treated as a "STAND ALONE". And considering the enduring popularity of bestselling cozy mysteries featuring quirky amateur sleuths like Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, its clear readers are hungry for whodunnits that are both propulsive and warm.

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Book Published 2025-06-24 by Random House

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The second book in Julia Seales's delightful Beatrice Steele series is as witty and charming as the first. With the hilarity of a screwball comedy and the sensibility of a murder-infused Jane Austen novel, A Terribly Nasty Business is sheer fun!

Thank god we're back in Julia Seales's wonderfully irreverent version of Regency England, with its courting seasons, dead gentlemen, and flying squirrels. Seales's perfect blend of satire and earnestness reveals a deft hand. If you love mystery, you must read this book; if you love romance, you must read this book; if you simply love to laugh, A Terribly Nasty Business should shoot to the top of your TBR. This series is egregiously charming and preposterously delightful.

A hilarious, cozy, fast-paced mystery with seriously murderous Bridgerton vibes, it kept me giggling and kicking my feet with glee right to the end.

The word 'romp' was invented for Julia Seales's books. A Terribly Nasty Business is zany, absurdly charming, and frequently laugh-out-loud funnyhaving this much fun while reading about murder ought to be criminal.

A Terribly Nasty Business is an effervescent delight of a Regency mystery, infused with wit, originality, and page-turning twists and turns. Julia Seales's writing sparkles, and her characters are as clever as they are endearing. . . . A must-read!

Seales follows A Most Agreeable Murder with a jaunty sequel that finds Regency era sleuth Beatrice Steele swapping the provincial environs of Swampshire for London's hustle and bustle. . . . Seales doesn't stray too far from what worked in the first book, probing the strict class and gender divides of Regency England while keeping the plot moving at a steady clip. This series deserves a long run.

French (Éditions du Masque), Greek (Metaixmio), Hungarian (IPC Könyvek), Italian (Edizioni Piemme), Spanish (Lumen/PRHGE), UK/BC (Orion)

Julia Seales has crafted another utterly delightful, devilishly cheeky, and compulsively readable Beatrice Steele mystery that had me laughing one moment, swooning the next. A Terribly Nasty Business is totally charming, and I can't wait to see what Beatrice and Drake get up to next!

I couldn't stop laughing (and swooning)! A Terribly Nasty Business is a hilarious and ridiculously charming Regency murder mystery romp that will tickle your funny bone and keep you on the edge of your seat through every clever plot twist and turn. I fell in love with the characters and with Julia Seales's witty, irreverent writing style and can't wait for the next book in the series!