Book Series: Dubric - Classic Murder Mystery

Weight of the Castellan’s Curse

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For Dubric Byerly, aging head of security at Castle Faldorrah, saving lives has become a matter of saving his sanity. A silent, unseen killer stalks his castle, mutilating servant girls while leaving no clues or witnesses—only the gruesome ghosts of the victims. Ghosts only Dubric can see.

Caught in the grisly tangle is Nella, a linen maid working to free herself from a tortured past—if she can survive the invisible killer and pay off her debt to Lord Risley Romlin, grandson of the King and Dubric’s prime suspect. Every snowy dawn brings a new victim, a new ghost, and Dubric must resort to unconventional methods to unravel the few clues. With the future of Faldorrah and countless lives at stake, including his own, he can’t afford to be wrong. And if he’s right, the entire kingdom could be thrust into war.

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The Lord Apparent’s Razor

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Haunted by the ghosts of mutilated servant girls, desperate Castellan Dubric risked his staff to catch their killer. His bold move failed, and page Lars Hargrove nearly died. But Lars saw a scratch on Dubric’s prime suspect, Lord Risley Romlin who is grandson of the king and Faldorrah’s lord. Risley has motive, opportunity, a collapsible razor similar to the killer’s, and an ever-increasing obsession with linen maid Nella.Each morning brings another dead servant girl in the snow, each girl missing her kidneys and hair, each razor-slashed more viciously than the victim before. Residents of the castle grow angrier every day and demand Risley’s arrest, but Dubric has to be certain of Risley’s guilt before risking war. At least until Dubric’s own guards are killed beside the women they failed to protect.

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The Linen Maid’s Choice

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An unseen killer has hunted servant girls in the halls and courtyard of Castle Faldorrah for days, leaving eleven dribbling ghosts to haunt aging castellan Dubric Byerly with the weight of their deaths. The three surviving victims—Dubric’s page Lars, herald Beckwith, and, finally, linen maid Nella—offer only more questions until Nella’s benefactor and romantic pursuer, Lord Risley Romlin, defiant grandson of the King and Faldorrah’s Lord, forcibly kidnapped Nella and held her in his private suite, supposedly to protect her.

Dubric knew better.

A package soon arrived at Dubric’s suite, a vile, taunting collection of gruesome mementos, all leading directly to Nella and Risley’s desperate need to possess her. Now certain of Risley's guilt, Dubric arrests the young lord and locks him deep beneath the castle.

Risley's imprisonment and the lack of new murders does little to quell the fury as castle residents demand Risley’s immediate execution. Nella alone stands true, insisting her beloved is innocent. Despite assurances assurance that justice prevails, Nella takes steps to protect Risley, steps that undermine Dubric’s desperate attempts to avoid a war.

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