A ROGUE'S COMPANY

A genteel war widow and her street-wise business partner far exceed their modest job descriptions in their third postwar outing.

Gwendolyn Bainbridge has a fight on her hands to regain custody of her son, Ronnie, from the firm grip of her domineering father-in-law, Lord Harold Bainbridge. Her recent stay in a sanatorium after she lost her husband in World War II has labeled her an unfit parent even though she and her friend Iris Sparks have enjoyed success in operating The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Running an expanding business and taking martial arts classes give Gwen a greater sense of control in her battles with Lord Bainbridge, and Iris, a former counterintelligence operative a little too fond of the bottle, supplies both much-needed pep talks and hard-won perspective. But then Gwen discovers that her late husband’s share—now hers—of her father-in-law’s copper and munitions business is also under Lord Bainbridge’s thumb. A mysterious Right Sort client with more on his mind than finding a bride, a dead body near the dust bins behind Bainbridge’s exclusive men’s club, and Gwen’s unintended interruption of a nefarious scheme call on her wits, her newfound skills, and Iris’ shady but effective gallery of friends.

From the drawing room to the back alley, murder is no match for this unlikely pair of marriage brokers.