

Feel the need to stick your pinky up in the air like a flag, do it while drinking a Budweiser 😛 As Americans we have no business brewing tea.

Americans, no matter how they aped English manners, no matter how they imported hampers from Fortnum’s, failed to understand tea.” “…taking a sip of her tea, which had been brewed too weak. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips? Bay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip.īut then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Martin's Press on January 9th 2018Īnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria.
