The Haunting of Mount Cod

Lady Laura Boxford lives with her pug, Parker in the retirement complex of Wellworth Lawns, formerly her family home. One day she and her friend Venetia see the ancient actor, Sir Repton Willowby arriving. He's Venetia's cousin by marriage and Venetia says he murdered his wife. He lives at the Edwardian pile, Mount Cod and he says he's being haunted by the ghost of an eighteenth century serving wench called Rosalind. Laura is convinced he's a charlatan using the ghost as a ruse for finding a new wife. She determines to get to the bottom of the mystery on account of Venetia's daughter who stands to inherit Mount Cod. But did Sir Repton murder his wife and is the house haunted?

Nicky Stratton had a successful career as a copy writer until she turned fifty, took an Open University degree in Humanities, and started writing in earnest. Her work has been published in two anthologies and her first novel was published in 2016. She lives near Stratford on Avon.