![]() ![]() ![]() Like all good cooks, Kat can read, something she learned at grammar school and later from the “first cook who’d apprenticed” her. ![]() It is noteworthy that Kat’s skill and precision as a cook and the original techniques she employs are put at the service of Daniel McAdam as he turns to sleuthing for, “Kat and Daniel discover that the household murder was the barest tip of a plot rife with danger and treason-one that’s a threat to Queen Victoria herself.” The tip-off to the plot to assassinate the Queen was the discovery of a ripped piece of paper. When Sinead, her young Irish kitchen assistant is brutally killed, her face “rendered a bloody pulp,” Kat is convinced, from the viciousness of the attack, that the attacker was a man. In Jennifer Ashley’s Death Below Stairs, readers are introduced to Kat Holloway, a gifted female cook, respected above and below stairs in the aristocratic household where she works. To celebrate this regal moment, aficionados of mysteries can explore how royals became part of the plot, with books encompassing the reigns of Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II. King Charles III’s coronation takes place on Saturday at Westminster Abbey in London. ![]()
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