Victorian mysteries from the USA Today bestselling author of the Deadly Series.
Enter the London of hansom cabs and gas lights to combat crime and bring killers to justice.
Georgia Fenchurch is a demure Victorian spinster and part of the secretive investigative group the Archivist Society. She is both a quiet antiquarian bookseller and adventurous hunter of killers and thieves.
A royal wedding is planned between Queen Victoria's cousin and a Russian princess, marred by the murder of the princess's bodyguard. The Duke of Blackford is called on to prevent an international incident and he calls on the Archivist Society, particularly Georgia, to aid in keeping this royal romance alive.
Georgia and the Duke find secrets within secrets. Anarchists, a Russian family scandal, and a new, vicious Russian bodyguard all conspire to defeat British plans for a quiet courtship. Add a willful princess who sneaks away from her protectors, and Georgia fears wedding bells will turn into a funeral dirge.
These are clean reads, with no scary, on stage violence, swearing, or sex.
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- ISBN: 9798986022529
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- ISBN: 9798986022529
- File size: 373 KB
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- English
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May 25, 2015
In Parker’s frothy third Victorian Bookshop mystery (after 2014’s The Counterfeit Lady), London bookseller Georgia Fenchurch, a leading light of the Archivist Society (a covert group “dedicated to getting justice for people when the police fail”), gets ample opportunity to spend time with her dream man, the Duke of Blackford, and help the British Empire. The Russian bodyguard of Princess Kira, a Romanov engaged to be married to a cousin of Queen Victoria, has been murdered, and the British government authorities fear that Kira will be next. Georgia goes undercover as Kira’s secretary and soon learns that her charge is guarding some secrets very tightly. A subplot concerning the man Georgia holds responsible for her parents’ murder somewhat distracts, as do plot contrivances that function purely to put people’s lives in jeopardy. Smart pacing and a hefty dose of chaste romance may be enough for most cozy readers. Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyons Literary Agency.
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