The Housekeeper

The year is 1897, Queen Victoria is three years from the end of her long reign, while one wealthy and warped wife has come to the end of hers. Full-stop applied when her feckless and opportunist husband can take no more of her treatment of him and takes steps to remove her from his life. A removal that will see him inherit her considerable fortune and portfolio of properties and finally be able to lead the dissolute and idle life of which he's always dreamed. A dream of Mr Wilson Fenway, it turns out, that hasn't taken into account his murdered wife and the Last Will and Testament favouring her young housekeeper, Elspeth. A young housekeeper empowered by the iron-clad terms of the Will to administer the estate of her late mistress and ensure her feckless husband is taken care of by a firm female hand. If, that is, he wishes to continue enjoying the life he has known in the home he expected to be his and now finds controlled by a woman he regarded as no more than a servant. A "Servant" who has not only been given authority over him if he wishes to retain the life he has known until now, but has stone-cold evidence that he was responsible for the poisoning of her beloved mistress. A mistress with whom she shared certain emotional ...peculiarities! It will not end well. Believable female-led fantasy and suspense for the connoisseur of fiction's commanding women.