Mystery author returns to Winslow shop

Bainbridge Island author Tessa Arlen will be signing copies of her latest Lady Montfort mystery, “A Death By Any Other Name,” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 14 at Eagle Harbor Book Company.

A planned book launch for Thursday, March 16, has been canceled.

Arlen will be in the store to chat with customers and sign copies of her new volume, as well as her previous two mysteries.

“A Death by Any Other Name” is set in the English countryside, revisiting the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time, roses.

The services of the elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society.

The daughter of a British diplomat, Arlen grew up living in or visiting Singapore, Berlin, the Persian Gulf, Beijing, Delhi and Warsaw. She came to the U.S. in 1980s and worked as a human resources recruiter for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Games, where she met her future husband when she interviewed him for a job.