Ellis Peters: Death and the Joyful Woman (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
When Inspector Felse arrests a woman for the murder of a beer tycoon, his son sets out to prove her innocence in this Edgar Award-winning mystery.

Is a vulgarity ground for murder? Alfred Armiger had antagonized many with his greed and crass acquisitiveness. So when the ruthless beer baron is discovered dead, his head beaten in by a magnum of champagne, there is no shortage of suspects.

All of Comerford is shocked when Detective George Felse arrests Kitty Norris, the daughter of a rival beer baron, the last person to see Armiger alive, and the main beneficiary of his will. But Kitty, charming and popular, has an unexpected advocate in Felse's young son, Dominic, who has fallen in love with her. Passionately convinced of Kitty's innocence, Dominic sets out to find the true culprit, a hazardous undertaking that could cost him his life.

Death and the Joyful Woman is the 2nd book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Ellis Peters: Death and the Joyful Woman. The Felse Investigations. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504027076 (December, 2015), eBook, 10.83 MB (ca. 256 p.), $8.99.

Ellis Peters: Death and the Joyful Woman (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
SUPPOSE THE WOMAN YOUR SON LOVED WAS CHARGED WITH MURDER...
Just sixteen, Dominic Felse begins to feel the painful, exquisite stirrings of first love. He's in heaven when the object of his ado- ration, heiress Kitty Norris, offers him a lift in her red sports car. Then a few days later his own father, Inspector George Felse of the Comerford Police, charges her with murder. An arrogant millionaire has been killed with a magnum bottle of champagne at a pub once called The Joyful Woman -- and the person with motive, means, and opportunity is Kitty. Although she is obvi- ously lying, Inspector Felse listens intently as Dominic insists on her innocence. But he doesn't see his son's desperation to find the real killer-or the dangerous deceptions a tormented heart can weave...

BY THE CELEBRATED AUTHOR OF THE BROTHER CADFAEL MYSTERIES, THIS NEW EDITION OF AN INSPECTOR FELSE CLASSIC WHODUNIT AGAIN MAKES AVAILABLE A GEM OF DETECTIVE FICTION -- FLAWLESS, INTRICATE, AND EXECUTED WITH A MASTER'S TOUCH.

"A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT... THE FELSE FAMILY IS) AS SIGNIFICANT A CREATION IN MY VIEW AS THE MEDIEVAL BROTHER CADFAEL WHO HAS BROUGHT PETERS HER GREATEST FAME." -- ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE

Ellis Peters: Death and the Joyful Woman. An Inspector George Felse Mystery. The Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446400688 (October, 1995), 224 p., $5.50.