TY - BOOK AU - Fellowes,Jessica TI - The Mitford murders SN - 9780751567168 (paperback) U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group KW - Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, KW - Mitford, Nancy, KW - Mitford, Pamela, KW - Mosley, Diana, KW - Mitford, Unity, KW - Mitford, Jessica, KW - Shore, Florence Nightingale KW - Mitford family KW - Fiction KW - Women household employees KW - Nurses KW - Crimes against KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - England KW - London KW - Household employees KW - Sisters KW - Secrecy KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - Lose yourself in the gripping first novel in a new series of Golden Age murder mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters. It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.Louisa'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.But then a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake - is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret . . . Based on a real unsolved crime and written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the number one-bestselling Downton Abbey books, The Mitford Murders is the perfect new obsession for fans of Daisy Goodwin, Jessie Burton and Agatha Christie ER -