A Sinister Service

Written by Alyssa Maxwell

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon

Following the devastation of the Great War, England's noble class takes comfort in honoring tradition. To celebrate their grandparents' wedding anniversary, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her siblings travel to Staffordshire to commission a china service bearing the Wroxly coat of arms from the venerated Crown Lily Potteries, a favorite of Queen Mary.

The two leading designers at the illustrious china manufacturer offer competing patterns. But when one of them is found dead-his body crushed in a grinding pan and his design pattern book missing-his rival is immediately suspected. The police are also suspicious of the dead designer's resentful young son, a schoolmate of Phoebe's fifteen-year-old brother Fox. When Fox gets involved to help his friend, Phoebe begins to investigate the rival artist.

At the same time, Eva is enlisted to go undercover at the works so she can gain the confidence of the female employees, who are only allowed to paint, not design, which may have led to a grudge against the victim. Pursuing a killer who has no compunction about using a kiln as a coffin, Phoebe and Eva take their lives into their hands to discover the shattering truth . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Jan 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781696603836

Alyssa Maxwell

Alyssa Maxwell began a love affair with the city of Newport years ago. Time and again the colonial neighborhoods and grand mansions drew her to return, and on one of those later visits she met the man who would become her husband. Always a lover of history, Maxwell found that marrying into a large, generations--old Newport family opened up an exciting new world of historical discovery. Today, she and her husband reside in Florida, but part of her heart remains firmly in that small New England city of great historical significance. For more info please visit www.alyssamaxwell.com.

Reviews for A Sinister Service

[Janie · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This review is simply for the narration. I could not listen to it. Having listened to hundreds of audiobooks and read all the books in this series up to this one, I could not get past the narration. Being old myself, I am most certainly not against using an older person as narrator. HOWEVER, when ALL of the main characters in a story are VERY young, that rarely works… and this is one of those cases where it did not work for sure. I’m thoroughly enjoying both Ms. Maxwell’s series, but her choice of narrator for both was, unfortunately, not a good one.