Below Stairs Mysteries

Autumn and Spring in Kat Holloway's life brings new mysteries and plenty of cooking.A Measure of MenaceWhile Kat and the kitchen staff maintain the empty Mayfair house one October, while the family resides in the country, Lord Clifford, Lady Cynthia's confidence trickster father, arrives in London and asks Kat and Daniel for help in a tricky situation.A Moveable Feast Kat Holloway's employer decides the family will spend Easter dinner at a friend's house in Portman Square, where Kat will substitute for that home's cook. Kat objects but has no choice but to obey. Intrigue and sudden death in that household, however, catches Kat off-guard, plunging her and Daniel into yet another dangerous mystery.These stories take place between Speculations in Sin and A Silence in Belgrave Square. Jennifer Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of 75 published novels and novellas in romance and mystery. She writes historical and paranormal romance as Jennifer Ashley; mysteries as Ashley Gardner; and paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James. She has been published since 2002 at Penguin / Berkley, Ellora's Cave, and now independently, and has won numerous awards for her work. See her websites for more information.

London, 1880Kat Holloway, highly sought-after young cook to the wealthy of London, finds herself embroiled in murder when she's accused of poisoning her employer, the loathsome Sir Lionel Leigh-Bradbury. Her only help as she works to clear her name comes from the mysterious Daniel McAdam, a handsome man-of-all-work who seems to know everyone and always happens to be in the right place at the right time. Kat and Daniel investigate the crime, but the mystery of Daniel's background might be just as elusive and dangerous as the poisoner bent on framing Kat for murder.Prequel novella to the Kat Holloway Below Stairs mysteries series. Jennifer Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of 75 published novels and novellas in romance and mystery. She writes historical and paranormal romance as Jennifer Ashley; mysteries as Ashley Gardner; and paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James. She has been published since 2002 at Penguin / Berkley, Ellora's Cave, and now independently, and has won numerous awards for her work. See her websites for more information.

December 1882 When cook Kat Holloway is blamed when a dinner guest mysteriously takes ill after eating one of her meals, she sets out to prove she had nothing to do with the gentleman's sickness. She discovers a whole host of people who might wish to do away with the man, and she and her friends-Daniel McAdam, Lady Cynthia, Mr. Thanos, and various members of the household staff-begin to hunt for the would-be killer. Simultaneously tasked with crafting the perfect Christmas feast, including the pièce de résistance, the Christmas plum pudding, Kat frantically works to finish all, fearing she'll have to choose between stopping a murderer and cherishing her few precious Christmas moments with her daughter. Jennifer Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of 75 published novels and novellas in romance and mystery. She writes historical and paranormal romance as Jennifer Ashley; mysteries as Ashley Gardner; and paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James. She has been published since 2002 at Penguin / Berkley, Ellora's Cave, and now independently, and has won numerous awards for her work. See her websites for more information.