Marilyn Clay

Dear Readers, The newest book in my NEW Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series, MURDER At MARLEY CHASE is now available in both print and Ebook from Amazon! "A fast-paced read with a cast of lively characters!" This book, as well as the first nine titles in this captivating Regency Mystery series will keep readers turning pages to find out who did what and why! A compelling mystery and a highly entertaining read! Not to be missed!" - Regency Mystery Reviewer, T. Brady

Says a reader: "Author MARILYN CLAY has found her niche in her Juliette Abbott Regency Murder Mystery Series. Clay's Regencies are wholesome, and entertaining, and very often laugh-out-loud amusing. Her Regency mysteries are cleverly constructed and plotted to hold a reader's attention throughout. Miss Abbott is a clever and quick-thinking heroine beginning with Murder At Morland Manor, and continuing through Murder in Mayfair, Murder in Margate, Murder At Medley Park, Murder In Middlewych, Murder In Maidstone, Murder At Montford Hall, Murder On Marsh Lane, Murder In Martindale and now, Murder At Marley Chase. All ten novels in this captivating series are very well done and highly recommended!"

In Book #4: WHAT HAPPENS when clever young Miss Juliette Abbott accepts an assignment to catalogue the precious artifacts belonging to the wealthy Lord and Lady Medley at their country estate? First, a stable lad is found murdered and soon thereafter Lady Medley's entire collection of valuable jewels is discovered missing! Following another tragic murder, Juliette is drawn into the mystery when it's noted that she was the last person to see the deceased alive and a valuable item belonging to that person is found in her bedchamber!

When Juliette receives an ominous threat on her life, she knows that time is running out. Can she expose the killer, or will she find her neck in a noose as payment for both the theft and murders at Medley Park? Once again Miss Abbott proves to be a first-rate sleuth as she sorts out the truth against all odds, including a terrifying attempt on her life!

In Book #3 of this series MURDER IN MARGATE Juliette has agreed to pass the summer with her friend Miss Cathleen Haworth in England's sunny seacoast village of Margate. However, from the outset things do not go as planned. When the younger sister of Juliette's new friend in Margate suddenly goes missing, Juliette offers to help the family search for the girl. But when Juliette discovers the missing girl's abigail lying dead on a ledge below a cliff, the search for the maid's killer escalates. Just when Juliette believes she has uncovered the killer, she is instead targeted by a ruthless gang of smugglers who have vowed to dispatch HER to the bottom of the sea! Can Miss Abbott escape with her life, or is she destined to become yet one more murder in Margate?

In Book 2, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, Miss Abbott and her friend Miss Haworth are preparing to sell a collection of priceless artifacts to a London curiosity dealer. But, before they can even approach the gentleman, he turns up dead! With only two likely suspects and no funds to hire a Bow Street detective to investigate the crime, Juliette takes on the daunting task herself. But, she’s having the devil of a time figuring out why anybody would want to kill the handsome man! In the end, she successfully unravels the puzzle and all is well again . . . but not for long.

Book #1 MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, introduces readers to Miss Juliette Abbott as the clever, young heroine and sleuth. When several murders occur at a house party at the fabulously wealthy Morland Manor, all fingers point to Juliette as the killer! The only way out of the dilemma is to solve the crime herself. But, can Juliette succeed without being forced to leave with a new geegaw, one made from rope, tied around her neck? I assure you, Miss Juliette Abbott is a one-of-a-kind Regency heroine!

My first contemporary murder mystery STALKING A KILLER, is also now available in print and Ebook from Amazon. STALKING A KILLER features Amanda Mason, a twenty-something single mom raising her five-year-old son alone. An aspiring private investigator, Amanda is shocked when her first case is a murder charge against her elderly father! STALKING A KILLER is set in a small lake town near Dallas, where I lived for many years.

Back then, as a single lady living in Dallas, I had not yet thought of becoming a writer, and instead was thoroughly enjoying my career as an artist and fashion illustrator attending the exciting runway fashion shows at the Dallas Apparel Mart. I eventually accepted a position as University Editor at The University of Texas at Dallas and later, teaching newspaper layout and news story writing to journalism students at Southern Methodist University. As my interest in writing grew, I joined a local chapter of Romance Writers of America, and was thrilled to win their national contest to design the new RITA award and even more thrilled to be awarded the first RITA statuette ever presented at the RWA Conference in San Francisco that year! I soon became hooked on writing and sold six Regency Romance novels to a New York publisher. All of my Regencies are now available as Ebooks on Amazon, as well as a new one titled THE WRONG MISS FAIRFAX.

About this same time, I began to publish The Regency Plume Newsletter which focuses on the Regency period in English history. If you're a writer, or reader, interested in Regency period furniture, you'll like my three REGENCY PERIOD FURNITURE books. BAUBLES & NECESSITIES PERTAINING TO HER LADYSHIP (Vol. 2) immediately became the #1 Best Seller on Amazon in Collectibles and Antiques, with the other two books also listed in the top 5 Best-Selling spots.

Two of my other non-fiction titles, HISTORY OF THE WATER CLOSET and 18th & 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA, as well as several of my Regencies, including THE WRONG MISS FAIRFAX, have also made Amazon's Top 100 Best Selling Ebooks list.

I have also authored several Colonial America historical suspense novels. DECEPTIONS: A JAMESTOWN NOVEL was originally published in hardcover and tells the story of a young English girl who travels to Jamestown in 1617 in search of her childhood sweetheart. (Also available in Ebook as DANGEROUS DECEPTIONS and THE LETTER.)

The sequel titled SECRETS AND LIES was also originally published in hardcover. Four English girls travel to the New World on a Bride Ship, each in search of love and husbands, but once in Jamestown, the girls are shocked to discover that someone in the New World wants one, or all of them, dead! Now available in paperback as A PETTICOAT & LAMBSKIN GLOVES; and also in Ebook as DANGEROUS SECRETS.

Another of my Colonial American novels, BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY is set in Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary war. Aside from a few books written about Betsy Ross by her descendants, neither my publisher nor I knew of any fictional works for adults that featured Betsy Ross as heroine. Although I spent months researching the revolutionary war, and George Washington's Patriot army, do keep in mind that BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY is a work of fiction and should be regarded as such.

I discovered in my study of the revolutionary war that very little is known about Betsy's life during the year 1776, the year after her husband John Ross was reportedly killed in a freak warehouse explosion, therefore I chose that year in which to weave my story. When the authorities did nothing to investigate the warehouse explosion, Betsy decides to solve the mystery herself and in the doing is drawn into Philadelphia's dangerous and confusing underworld of spies and double spies working for both the British and Patriot rebels. BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY is available in print from Amazon and also as an Ebook.

I hope you will enjoy my Colonial American historical suspense novels, my Regency romances, my contemporary mystery, STALKING A KILLER and that you will also enjoy all the books in my new Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, MURDER IN MARGATE, MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK, MURDER IN MIDDLEWYCH, MURDER IN MAIDSTONE, MURDER AT MONTFORD HALL, MURDER ON MARSH LANE, MURDER IN MARTINDALE and MURDER AT MARLEY CHASE, all available in ebook, print, and in audio from Google Books now.

Thank you all for reading my books! I love hearing from readers so if you'd like to contact me, you'll find a link to my e-mail address on The Regency Plume website or my Marilyn Clay Author web page. Happy reading and God Bless!