Murder at Rough Point

✍ Scribed by Maxwell, Alyssa

• Book ID: 109160076
• Publisher: Kensington
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Series: Gilded Newport 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781496703286

✦ Synopsis

In glittering Newport, Rhode Island, status is everything. But despite being a poorer relation to the venerable Vanderbilts, Emma Cross has shaped her own identity --as a reporter and a sleuth.
As the nineteenth century draws to a close,__ Fancies and Fashion reporter Emma Cross is sent by the Newport Observer to cover an elite house party at Rough Point, a "cottage" owned by her distant cousin Frederick Vanderbilt that has been rented as an artist retreat. To her surprise, the illustrious guests include her estranged Bohemian parents--recently returned from Europe--as well as a variety of notable artists, including author Edith Wharton.
But when one of the artists is discovered dead at the bottom of a cliff, Rough Point becomes anything but a house of mirth. After a second murder, no one is above suspicion--including Emma's parents. As Newport police detective Jesse Whyte searches for a killer, Emma tries to draw her own...