Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read "Murder in Mayfair" in exchange for my honest review.

This is the 18th book in the Lady Eleanor Swift series and it's just as exciting as the first book was. The stories and characters have been developing through the series and the reader feels like they are friends or family as we peek in on their lives through the various adventures they have.

Ellie and Clifford are visiting the British Empire Exhibition in London. Lady Chadwick rushes over to great Ellie but then is almost reluctant to speak to her.

Though they play small roles in this story Mrs. Butter - the housekeeper, Mrs. Trotman - the cook and the maids Polly and Lizzie also visit the Exhibition. As they return to Henley Hall, Clifford and Ellie stay on to search for Lady Chadwick's stolen pearl necklace before her husband finds out it's missing. She insists that a member of her staff stole it and wants Ellie to arrive at Chadwick House as the new governess.

When Ellie decides to take look at a hot air balloon, what could go wrong? Rampaging elephants send the balloon on an unscheduled flight and Ellies sees someone get shot...when she finally gets out of the balloon (which was absolutely brilliant), there is no body to be found.

Chief Inspector Seldon is the head of security for the Empire Exhibition and is also Ellie's fiancé. He can't find a body, there is no one in the hospitals who had been wounded, no one in the morgue. No one believes what she saw, even when they find a bullet.

Mr. Withers the butler treats Ellie with contempt. The staff are constantly bickering and Withers spends his time informing Lord Chadwick when his wife leaves the house late at night when he isn't around.

We learn that the dead man was John Clemthorpe but why is there a cover-up? Who shot him and why? Then there is another body, that they were trying ingeniously to hide in the dumbwaiter.

The story of when the necklace was actually stolen gets more and more confusing - was it stolen during Lady Chadwick's latest soiree or when Withers was killed? The pieces of the puzzle all come together in the end. Ellie meets the mysterious Lord X who owes a favour to her late uncle and provides the final pieces for Ellie and the others to solve this complex mystery.

Ellie promises more ladylike behaviour but how long will that last? Ellie is perfect just the way she is.

4.5 rounded to 5 star.

Lady Eleanor Swift strikes again! These books always have a way of transporting me to another world and I always enjoy the banter between the characters. It was strange not to have Clifford with Lady Swift most of the time, and I did miss Gladstone and Tomkins, but the plot was nonetheless intriguing and had me gripped.
I am also glad Lady Siwft didn't land in a dangerous predicament as she tends to do, it was a welcoming change to the story.
Addicting plot, amazing characters and mouth-watering food combinations that made me reach for snacks most of the time.

*Thank you to Bookotoure and NetGalley for sending me an ARC for my honest review*

Another fun cozy mystery but the series. When Lady Eleanor is attending a fair showing countries around the world that England used to own, she takes a balloon ride over the exhibit and sees a murder. With her trusty butler and her hunky police detective she sets out to solve the murder. When a fellow acquaintance asks for help she takes on the disguise of a nanny to help find a missing necklace. Lots of twists and turns and all are connected. Good story, and one I highly recommend.