This week, I’m giving away two mysteries set in the years immediately after World War I.

Penny for Your Secrets is Anna Lee Huber’s Verity Kent mystery. In England in 1919, Verity Kent
and her husband, Stanley, are still trying to recover their marriage. In their society, it’s a hectic pace of trying to forget. Verity and Sydney are at a party when Lord Rackham is shot dead, and his wife, Ada, is the primary suspect.  They also agree to look into a supposed suicide. It slowly dawns on them that the two cases may be connected. Has British politics led to murder?

In Charles Todd’s A Cruel Deception, the war is over, but the British are still putting together the pieces. Nurse Bess Crawford is helping to close down army hospitals when her superior asks for a favor. She wants Bess to go to Paris to look for her missing son, a soldier who was there for the peace talks. Bess finds Lawrence Minton, but he’s using drugs, and disappears again. What memories have caused the young man to try to forget? Bess is leery of trusting anyone while on a search to find him before he attempts to commit suicide.

Which mystery would you like to win? You can enter to win both, but I need separate entries. Email me at Lesa.Holstine@gmail.com. Your subject line should read either “Win Penny for Your Secrets” or “Win A Cruel Deception”. Please include your name and mailing address. The giveaway will end Thursday, Nov. 7 at 5 PM CT. Entries from the U.S. only please.