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Title details for Misery Hates Company by Elizabeth Hobbs - Available

Misery Hates Company

A Novel

by Elizabeth Hobbs
Madeleine Dauer
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Miss Marigold Manners may be steeped in the etiquette of her old-money Boston family, but she is also an accomplished, modern woman and an avid student of archaeology who can handle any situation with poise. When the death of her parents leaves her too destitute to pursue her academic career and she receives a letter from a distant relative on Great Misery Island, Marigold decides she must do what any person of superior sense and greater-than-average curiosity would: she mounts her trusty bicycle and heads up the craggy, fog-shrouded coast of New England for a date with fate.
Marigold arrives at Hatchet Farm, a moldering, gothic pile of a house inhabited by relatives so mired in the sins of the past, they have no future. She sets out to modernize the recluses with a brisk, ruthless efficiency, but her well-intentioned plans to manage their lives lead to malice—and murder. Marigold spies a body floating in the stormy waters surrounding the island, and her suspicions immediately turn to her hostile, weapon-wielding relatives when one of the local girls turns up missing. And she might not be the only one.
When another dead body is found in the garden of the estate, Marigold finds herself accused. She must enlist the help of an eccentric, colorful cast of friends and found family to save herself—and everything she holds dear.

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    November 5, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798855593334
      • File size: 382393 KB
      • Duration: 13:16:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 2, 2024
      Hobbs introduces aspiring archaeologist Miss Marigold Manners in this amusing debut and series launch set in 1894 Boston. Marigold’s socialite parents have just died, leaving her without property to inherit or sufficient funds to continue her education. Facing an uncertain future, the witty and confident 21-year-old receives a letter from her mother’s cousin, Sophronia Hatchet, summoning her to Great Misery Island—a largely abandoned blip off the coast of Massachusetts—so Sophronia can right a “great and godless wrong” her “man” did to Marigold’s mother. Curious, Marigold heads to the island and finds the Hatchet home in disrepair, with her cousins beaten down by their patriarch, the Bible-thumping Ellery Hatchet. Marigold tries to get her taciturn relatives, including Sophronia, talking, but most are brooding and tight-lipped. When someone turns up dead and a local girl goes missing, Marigold suspects the tragedies might be connected to the secrets the Hatchets are harboring. The narrative carries unmistakable echoes of Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm, and the mystery only kicks in toward the end, but Marigold is such good company that readers are unlikely to care. A sequel would be welcome. Agent: Danielle Egan Miller, Browne & Miller Literary.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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