THE MERRY WIDOW MURDERS

The war has ended and all fashionable society on both sides of the Atlantic wants is to get back to normal. For war widow Lady Lucy Revelstoke that means taking a trip to New York City where she reconnects with her late husband's friend, the dashing Lord Tony Anderson. Holiday over, they return home via steamship, Lucy eager to be reunited with her young son in England. But when an anonymous hitman is found murdered in her stateroom on their first night at sea, it seems like someone onboard wants to dig up the past, and Lucy has done a lot of work to keep hers buried.

Could it be the distractingly handsome ship's purser, Graham West, the only one who knows the truth about Lucy's girlhood as the child of the Canadian Mafia? Or the enigmatic import/export man Mr. Sloan, whom nobody knows at all? With the help of her eccentric maid Elf and the increasingly erratic attentions of Lord Tony, Lucy is determined to protect her hard-won good name and her son's future at any cost.

Melodie Campbell is the author of the Arthur Ellis and Derringer award-winning Goddaughter series and Rowena Through the Wall, an Amazon Top 100 Bestseller (all books), among others. Her work has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Star Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Canadian Living, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and many more. She is the former Executive Director of Crime Writers of Canada.