the setup… Private investigator Frank Malloy has a new client, one he doesn’t particularly like but the case is intriguing. Hugh Breedlove has just returned with his family from England with the intention of introducing his daughter to society. However, he’s learned that his niece has been unfairly committed to an insane asylum by her… Continue reading Blog Tour: Murder on Bedford Street by Victoria Thompson @gaslightvt @Berkley
the setup… Muireall Thompson is the eldest of her four siblings, all orphaned sixteen years ago when their parents died during their voyage from Scotland to Philadelphia. She became their caretaker at a very tender age, managing the family business, seeing to their needs and keeping them together. Now that all but the youngest have… Continue reading The Captain’s Woman by Holly Bush @hollybushbooks
Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has brought his family to Paris to finally locate his mother Sophie. He’s confirmed that she has taken the name Sophia Cappella and lives in the city. It’s March 1815, a turbulent time in France where Napoleon is in exile and the Bourbon King Louis VIII has been restored to… Continue reading When Blood Lies by C. S. Harris @csharris2 @BerkleyPub
Mrs. Edith Bing visits Frank Malloy, now a private investigator, seeking his help to divorce her husband. That would require him to prove her husband had committed adultery and it’s just not what he does. She never discloses why she wants the divorce and leaves without explanation. Her husband, Alvin Bing, is an investor in… Continue reading Murder on Madison Square by Victoria Thompson @gaslightvt @BerkleyPub
Eight months ago, former gangster Jack Robinson married Jocelyn Vane as part of his efforts to gain respectability in society as he transitions his businesses to legal activities. She was pregnant as the result of a rape at the time, banished by her family to Sarah Malloy’s clinic. The marriage also rescued her from scandal.… Continue reading Murder on Wall Street by Victoria Thompson
It’s 1791 London and a mysterious woman named Nella operates her secret business in the hidden section of her mother’s former apothecary shop where she learned the healing natures of herbs and plants. Her mother is gone and after Nella suffered a betrayal at the hands of a cheating lover, she shifts those skills to… Continue reading The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner @sl_penner @lornaebennett @LaurenanthonyA @HarlequinAudio
In 1811, two families in the Wapping area of London were viciously and brutally murdered, including an infant boy. The case became known as the Ratcliffe Highway murders and the man arrested as a suspect hanged himself before he even had a hearing. Since the murders ceased, all of London believed the suicide suspect to… Continue reading Blog Tour: What the Devil Knows by C. S. Harris @csharris2 @BerkleyPub
Elspeth Thompson is the middle daughter in a rather unconventional family, headed by her older sister. Their parents died at sea as they were immigrating from Scotland when she was just nine years old. They landed in Philadelphia and have a business that’s doing quite well now in 1868. On one of her shopping trips,… Continue reading The Bachelor’s Bride by Holly Bush @hollybushbooks
The Allied Sovereigns have assembled in London to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon in June 1814. Royal families from the German states, Russia and Austria are reveling in the restoration of the European monarchs. In the midst of all the festivities, the body of Nicholas Hayes, a British noble, was discovered in a tea garden.… Continue reading Who Speaks for the Damned by C. S. Harris
Private investigators Frank Malloy and Gino Donatelli get a case that’s very close to home. Gino’s sister-in-law Teo asks for help in finding a missing volunteer worker who is a resident at the settlement house in Italian East Harlem. They fear she’s been kidnapped by Nunzio Esposito and his gang who’s operating under the Black… Continue reading Murder on Pleasant Avenue by Victoria Thompson
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