Alicia Miller made one fatal mistake...falling in lvoe with dashing, young attorney Arthur Pendle. When Alicia's husband, Edward, is brutally murdered late at night in his private den in trendy Ashwood, the finger of suspicion falls on Alicia and Arthur ... and the public, the press, and the currupt city government begin baying for blood.
Meanwhile, Sarah Payne's fledgling Avenging Angel Detective Agency embarks on a quest to bring to justice the shadowy figures who conspired to silence Edward Miller ... who, it seems, possesed secrets that cost him his life ... and Sarah and her friends find themselves in a deadly confrontation with powerful men who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being known.
A tense courtroom drama, a locked-room murder mystery, and a supercharged tale of Gilded Age love and passion gone terribly wrong. A Murder in Ashwood will keep the pages turning until its final, spectacular twist.