Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones

“A deliciously enchanting adventure full of magic, mystery and delight. “A deliciously enchanting adventure full of magic, mystery and delight.” -Stephanie Burgis, author of Kat, Incorrigible I truly love this book!” -Caroline Stevermer, coauthor of Sorcery & Cecilia, or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot

Kelly Jones has found a fresh way to share the delights of the magical regency. Deciding to become a spy after her father is killed and his money goes missing, Annis Whitworth uses her talent for sewing magical garments to open a dressmaking shop as a cover while she quietly searchs for her father's murderer.

“ Murder, Magic, and What We Wore blew my bonnet off. It can’t be any harder than navigating the London social season, can it? That way she can earn a living, maintain her social standing, and, in her spare time, follow the coded clues her father left behind and unmask his killer. Miss Annis Whitworth will appear to live a quiet life in a country cottage with her aunt, and Annis-in-disguise as Madame Martine, glamour artist, will open a magical dressmaking shop. And so she crafts a new double life for herself. Well, if the spies are too pigheaded to take on a young woman of quality, then Annis will take them on. Alas, it does not make sense to England’s current spymasters-not even when Annis reveals that she has the rare magical ability to sew glamours: garments that can disguise the wearer completely. And so, of course, she decides to become a spy.Īnnis always suspected that her father was himself a spy, and following in his footsteps to unmask his killer makes perfect sense.

The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth has just learned that her father is dead and all his money is missing. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery and Cecelia will adore this funny Regency-era mystery about a determined young woman with a magical trick up her sleeve. Fans of Patrice Kindl’s Keeping the Castle or Patricia C.

Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones