The Haunted Season (37 page)

    

 

ALSO BY
G. M. MALLIET

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Cast of Characters

Epigraphs

Prologue: Destiny

  
1.
Max Tudor

  
2.
Breakfast at Totleigh Hall

  
3.
Lady Bountiful

  
4.
Max and the Lord of the Manor

  
5.
The Hon. Son

  
6.
Murder in the Woods

  
7.
DCI Cotton Takes the Case

  
8.
Max and the Butler

  
9.
Second Nanny

10.
First Nanny

11.
Suzanna and the WI

12.
Noah's Ark

13.
Destiny Remembers

14.
St. Edwold's

15.
The Duck Race

16.
Max and the Bishop

17.
Strangers on a Train

18.
Max and Cotton

19.
Max and the Lady

20.
Max and the Dowager

21.
Destiny Remembers II

22.
Gaslight

23.
Red Herrings

24.
Connections

25.
Born and Bred

26.
Awena

27.
Aftermath

28.
From Russia with Love

Epilogue

About the Author

Also by G. M. Malliet

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

 

A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

An imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group.

 

THE HAUNTED SEASON.
Copyright © 2015 by G. M. Malliet. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

 

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Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

 

Cover illustration by Rob Wood/Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc.

 

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Malliet, G. M.

    The haunted season: a Max Tudor novel / G. M. Malliet. — First edition.

        p. cm.

    “A Thomas Dunne Book.”

    ISBN 978-1-250-02144-1 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-250-02143-4 (e-book)

    I.  Title.

    PS3613.A4535H38 2015

    813'.6—dc23

2015022072

 

e-ISBN 9781250021434

 

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First Edition: October 2015