Veronica
Speedwell Mystery
Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn,
the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries...
London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica
Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only
establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady
Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task—saving society art patron
Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist
mistress Artemisia, Ramsforth will face the hangman’s noose in a week’s time if
Veronica cannot find the real killer.
But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity
is only the first of the many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her
natural historian colleague Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true
murderer—a ruthless villain who not only took Artemisia’s life in cold blood but
is happy to see Ramsforth hang for the crime. From a Bohemian artists’ colony to
a royal palace to a subterranean grotto with a decadent history, the
investigation proves to be a very perilous undertaking indeed....
Mystery Historical
[Berkley, On Sale: January 10, 2017, Hardcover /
e-Book, ISBN: 9780451476159 / eISBN: 9780698198456]
Veronica Speedwell
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