Red Mask: Into Death

By M.A. Lee

Isabella receives a disturbing letter—only for it to be stolen before she deciphers it.

The letter claims that a spy is aboard the Garipoola, but is that the only person hiding their true identity and purpose on the passenger ship?

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M.A. Lee is the multi-published author of over 15 historical mystery novels and two novellas. Her Into Death series, including Digging into Death, Christmas with Death, and Portrait with Death, features Isabella Newcombe. The 12-book Hearts in Hazard series combines mystery and suspense with a Regency England setting.

With Edie Roones, she penned 10 short stories in the Wild Sherwood series, featuring characters in the Robin Hood legends combined with the dangerous faeries of British mythology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Writers Ink Books
• Release date: Jul 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798988473916

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Red Mask

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More Fiction from M.A. Lee

The Into Death Series

The Hearts in Hazard 12-book series

The Miss Beale Writes series

Wild Sherwood

Red Mask

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Isabella stopped at a cloth covered with carved bowls. The vendor had placed the bowls rim-down, to display the carvings of monkeys, elephants, and swirls. Intrigued, she knelt for a closer look.

The bowls spanned a wide spectrum of wood tones, light to dark. She touched a light-colored bowl with monkeys in palm trees. What is this wood?

Sagwan. He repeated it. When she touched a rose-colored wood with little carving but lovely arches, he said, Sheesham, sheesham. He hovered his hand over a series of bowls. Nilambur was a mandala. Nagpur had columns like a palace collonade. Tigers slinking through reeds was Mango.

And cedar she named the rust-red bowl.

He plucked the bowl off the ground cloth and turned it upright. Warmed by the sun, the redolent cedar reminded her of clothes presses and chests. Elephants with lifted trunks paraded around the bowl balanced on his hand.

May I? She extended her hand.

He bobbed his head. Dark hair fell over his forehead. You look. You look good. Like any merchant from ages old, he knew touching the product would often sell it.

Closer inspection revealed that each elephant wore a headband and a cloth over its back, this one ornamented with beads, that one with cross-hatches, a third with swirls, and all parading before a different background. The elephant with flowers marched