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Tessa Arlen

Biography

Tessa Arlen

Tessa Arlen, the daughter of a British diplomat, had lived in or visited her parents in: Singapore, Berlin, The Persian Gulf, Beijing, Delhi and Warsaw by the time she was 16. She came to the U.S. in 1980 and worked as an H.R. recruiter for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympic Games, where she interviewed her future husband in 1983 for a job. She lives in New Mexico.

Tessa Arlen

Books by Tessa Arlen

by Tessa Arlen - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

In 1916, the world is at war and the energetic Lady Montfort has persuaded her husband to offer his family’s dower house to the War Office as an auxiliary hospital for officers recovering from shell-shock. Despite the hospital’s success, the farming community of Haversham does not approve of a country-house hospital for men they consider to be cowards. When Captain Sir Evelyn Bray, one of the patients, is found lying face down in the vegetable garden with his head bashed in, both Lady Montfort and her housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, have every reason to fear that the War Office will close their hospital. Once again, the two women unite their diverse talents to discover who would have reason to murder a war hero suffering from amnesia.

by Tessa Arlen - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, History, Mystery

When Mrs. Jackson receives a visit from a cook who believes she was an indirect witness to murder from a poisoned dish of breakfast kedgeree, Lady Montfort promises to do what she can to clear the cook's name. She contrives an invitation to Hyde Castle, the home of a self-made millionaire, to investigate a murder of concealed passions and secret desires. With the help of the invaluable Jackson, Lady Montfort sets about solving the puzzle surrounding the death of the rose society's most popular member and discovers a villain of audacious cunning among a group of mild-mannered, amateur rose-breeders.

by Tessa Arlen - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

Lady Montfort is thrilled to receive an invitation to a dinner party hosted by her close friend, Hermione Kingsley, the patroness of England's largest charity. Hermione has pulled together a select gathering to celebrate Winston Churchill's 39th birthday. But when the dinner ends, one of the gentlemen remains seated at the table with a knife between his ribs. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Lady Montfort and Mrs. Jackson unravel the web of secrecy surrounding the bright whirlwind of London society, investigating the rich, well-connected and seeming do-gooders in a race against time to stop the murderer from striking again.

by Tessa Arlen - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months with scrupulous care. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that’s ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry is pointing towards her son as a potential suspect. Taking matters into her own hands, she enlists the help of her pragmatic housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, to investigate the case, track down the women who vanished the night of the murder, and clear her son's name.