The Staircase: A murder mystery (The Fane and Blackwood Mysteries Book 1)

Oxford, 1925. A professor lies dead at the foot of his staircase. The police call it an accident. Nell Blackwood calls it something else entirely. Nineteen years old, furiously intelligent, and expected to smile at dinner parties and marry well — Nell has other plans. And when a family she has known since childhood begins to fracture under the weight of a grief that doesn't quite ring true, she can't stay quiet. The wife whose hands never tremble. The daughter who doesn't sleep. The son who wa