Murder Made Her Wicked

Bicycle-riding, aspiring archaeologist Marigold Manners is back and ready for adventure in Elizabeth Hobb’s next mesmerizing historical mystery.

“A humdinger…whose characters bring to mind those of both Emily Brontë and L.M. Montgomery” (Kirkus), this second installment is perfect for fans of Deanna Rayborn.

1894, Boston. The cloistered closed world of a women’s college is a mysterious place to many, but not Marigold Manners. The penniless, bicycle-riding Boston heiress and accomplished modern woman is at home among her like-minded academicians. Until the peace of their bucolic campus is shattered by the death of one of their own.

Marigold has put her past to good use, selling the story of the Great Misery Island Murders to earn enough money to resume the life she was always meant to have. She returns to her beloved Wellesley College, where she once again takes up her studies to become a classical archaeologist. But her carefully laid plans for academic excellence are thrown into disarray when she stumbles across the body of a young woman who has presumably drowned in the campus lake. When the victim’s means of demise is soon determined to have been intentional, Marigold must use every ounce of her logic, enlist her eccentric, colorful cast of fellow students and found-family to identify the girl and find the murderer—before he kills again.