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A LADY IN THE SMOKE
By: Karen Odden
Victorian Mystery
Alibi
April 2016
On Sale: March 29, 2016
375 pages
ISBN: 1101886404
EAN: 9781101886403
Kindle: B00QP3ROVY
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Karen Oddenโs enthralling debut historical mystery transports readers to Victorian England, where a terrifying railway disaster plunges a headstrong young noblewoman into a conspiracy that reaches to the highest corridors of power.
Following a humiliating fourth Season in London, Lady Elizabeth Fraser is on her way back to her ancestral country estate when her train careens off the rails and bursts into flames. Though she is injured, she manages to drag herself and her unconscious mother out of the wreckage, and amid the chaos that ensues, a brilliant young railway surgeon saves her motherโs life. Elizabeth feels an immediate connection with Paul Wilcoxโthough society would never deem a medical man eligible for the daughter of an earl.
After Paul reveals that the train wreck was no accident, and the inspector who tried to prevent it dies under mysterious circumstances, Elizabeth undertakes a dangerous investigation of her own that leads back to her familyโs buried secrets. The more she learns, the more she must risk. Not only are her dowry and her reputation at stake; Paulโs very life hangs in the balance when he is arrested for manslaughter. As the trial draws near, and Parliament prepares for a vote that will change the course of the nation, Elizabeth uncovers a conspiracy that has been years in the making. But time is running out for her to see justice done.
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