Showing results by author "Bella Ellis" in Historical Fiction

The year is 1845, and Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte are sat around the dining room table, laughing merrily as the rain of their Yorkshire summer falls outside. When their brother, Branwell, returns from The Bull Inn, he brings with him the most shocking revelation: that Elizabeth Chester, wife of Robert Chester and mistress of Chester Grange, has gone missing - but the bloody scene found in her bedroom suggests she may have been murdered.

It's Christmas 1856 and Haworth is in the grip of a freezing winter. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are rather losing interest in detecting until they hear of a shocking discovery: the bones of a child have been found interred within the walls of a local house, Top Withens Hall, home to the scandalous and brutish Bradshaw family.

Anne and Emily Brontë have had their books accepted for publication, while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere, creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage. At the same time, a shocking court case has recently concluded, acquitting a workhouse master of murdering his wife by poison. Everyone thinks this famously odious and abusive man is guilty. However, he insists he is many bad things but not a murderer. When an attempt is made on his life, he believes it to be the same person who killed his wife and applies to the detecting sisters for their help.

Lydia has eloped with a young actor, Harry Roxby, and following her disinheritance, the couple has been living in poverty in London. Harry has become embroiled with a criminal gang and is in terrible danger after allegedly losing something very valuable that he was meant to deliver to their leader. The desperate and heavily pregnant Lydia has a week to return what her husband supposedly stole, or he will be killed. She knows there are few people who she can turn to in this time of need, but the sisters agree to help Lydia, beginning a race against time to save Harry's life.

Die Brontë-Schwestern ermitteln wieder! Haworth, 1845. Emily, Charlotte und Anne Brontë sind enttäuscht: Von ihrem Lyrikband wurden nur zwei Exemplare verkauft. Sie beschließen, fortan Romane zu schreiben. Auf der Suche nach passenden Geschichten erfahren die drei Ungeheuerliches: In den Mauern des düsteren Anwesens Top Withens Hall wurden die Knochen eines Kindes gefunden! Als kurz darauf erneut ein Kind verschwindet, schwören Charlotte, Emily und Anne, es zu finden. Doch ein Unbekannter tut alles, um die drei selbst ernannten Detektivinnen aufzuhalten.

Yorkshire, 1845: Ein mysteriöser Vorfall erschüttert das Anwesen Chester Grange. Die junge Gemahlin des Besitzers ist über Nacht spurlos verschwunden. Ihr Hausmädchen findet das Schlafzimmer verwüstet und voller Blut vor. Alles weist auf ein schreckliches Verbrechen hin. Als Charlotte, Emily und Anne Brontë von dem furchtbaren Ereignis hören, sind sie entsetzt - aber auch fasziniert. Die drei Töchter eines Landpfarrers sind sofort fest entschlossen, das Rätsel zu lösen.