A Murder for Miss Hortense: A Mystery Special Order in a novel that wrestles

in a novel that wrestles with moral and psychic anguish and the cascading consequences of our choices at every stage of life

General William Howe

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drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tearoom floor

only a heretic can defeat a god

A Murder for Miss Hortense: A Mystery Special Order in a novel that wrestlesA beautiful novel, suffused with fondness and wit. . . . A real triumph! Alexander McCall Smith Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. She takes great pride in her home, starching her lace curtains bright white, and she can tell if shes being shortchanged on turmeric before shes taken her first bite of a beef patty.