Susan Brownrigg – The secret of Abney Hall

Venue: The Curious Cat Bookshop – 25 Church Street, Frodsham, WA6 6PN Date: Thursday 22nd October (Arrival from 6.30pm, start 7pm) Tickets: £5.00 pp inc. Hot/Cold drink on arrival Susan Brownrigg is a Lancashire lass who loves sharing northern stories. Her historical mysteries include books for adults – The Secret of Abney Hall – and for children – the Gracie Fairshaw series and Wrong Tracks published by Fox and Ink Books a northern independent publisher. A journalism graduate, she worked for over ten years as a reporter and sub-editor for a series of local newspapers. Susan then switched careers to heritage and wildlife education at a number of visitor attractions, including as a Learning Manager at a museum. She was recently awarded a MA with distinction in Creative Writing by the University of Chester. When not writing, Susan works part-time as a library assistant. About The Secret at Abney Hall Manchester, December 1926. Agatha Christie has been found. After her sensational eleven-day disappearance, the world’s most famous crime writer is whisked away to the snow-covered Abney Hall to recover. But for her private nurse, Jane Goodbetter, the retreat is anything but peaceful. As a local theatre troupe arrives to rehearse a macabre new play, the atmosphere turns sinister. Secrets are leaking to the press, and Jane’s own dark past at a wartime asylum threatens to surface. When a body is discovered in the freezing lake and a blizzard traps everyone inside, the line between stagecraft and real-life murder blurs. In a house full of actors, doctors, and a cheating husband, Jane must unmask the killer before the final curtain falls, or she’ll be the next one silenced.