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Mystery of Old San Francisco #1
NAL
August 2015
On Sale: August 4, 2015
Featuring: Nicholas Greaves
384 pages
ISBN: 0451474899
EAN: 9780451474896
Kindle: B00OQS4GTI
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In this atmospheric historical mystery series debut, a
courageous nurse and a war-scarred police detective in 1860s
San Francisco champion the down-trodden and fight for
justice … After serving as a nurse in the Crimea, British-born Celia
Davies left her privileged family for an impulsive marriage
to a handsome Irishman. Patrick brought her to San
Francisco’s bustling shores but then disappeared and is now
presumed dead. Determined to carry on, Celia partnered
with her half-Chinese cousin Barbara and her opinionated
housekeeper Addie to open a free medical clinic for women
who have nowhere else to turn. But Celia’s carefully
constructed peace crumbles when one of her Chinese patients
is found brutally murdered…and Celia’s hotheaded
brother-in-law stands accused of the crime. A veteran of America’s civil war, detective Nicholas Greaves
is intent on discovering the killer of the girl, whose
ethnicity and gender render her as powerless in death as
they did in life. Nicholas’s efforts are complicated by
Celia, who has a knack for walking into dangerous situations
that may lead to answers…or get them both killed. For
as their inquiries take them from Chinatown’s squalid back
alleys to the Barbary Coast’s violent shipping docks to the
city’s gilded parlors, Celia and Nicholas begin to suspect
that someone very close to them holds the key to a murderous
conspiracy…
Mystery of Old San Francisco
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