About the Book: At the Mad Hatter Masquerade charity event held on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, a shocking crime unfolds when Harlan Sadler, husband of the organizer Cricket Sadler, is murdered—struck in the head with a croquet mallet and left hanging from the mill’s paddles. Everyone who knows Harlan struggles to reconcile how someone so well‑liked could be the victim. But when Cricket and her friend Delaine persuade amateur sleuth Theodosia to step in, a chilling possibility emerges: perhaps the killer mistook Harlan for his troubled son Duke—a despised slum‑lord with a recent boating‑accident scanda