Deception on Sable Hill

De: Shelley Gray

Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert

A high-stakes mystery of romance and intrigue that takes place in the Gilded Age of Chicago.

It’s mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago’s wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa confided in only one friend. That is, until she meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high-society ball.

Sean is on the fringes of the Chicago elite. Born into a poor Irish family, becoming a policeman was his best chance to ensure security. Despite social boundaries, he is enamored with Eloisa Carstairs. Sean will do anything to keep her safe - even if he can never earn her affections.

Eloisa longs to feel normal again, but a killer is on the loose. In the last month, three debutants have been accosted by an assailant wielding a knife, and Eloisa fears for her safety at every event she attends. As the danger in the city increases, and as the romance between Eloisa and Sean blossoms, they both realize they want to be seen as more than how the world views them. But will they catch the killer before all their hopes come crashing down?

The Chicago World Fair Mystery series

Book 1 - Secrets of Sloane House
Book 2 - Deception on Sable Hill
Book 3 - Whispers in the Reading Room

Book length: 86,000 words

©2015 Shelley Gray (P)2020 Zondervan

I highly recommend this book

You will enjoy the mystery and hardship. It is clean. No swear words and no bedroom scenes. Just a great story and really exceptional narrators!

i love this author

enjoyed, great narrator and story. looking for the next book. Shelley Gray is becoming a favorite!

Pedestrian

Maybe I should’ve looked at the title details more closely, but I was halfway through before realizing that this is some ham-handed Christian propaganda. This was under “historical fiction” and as a World’s Fair buff and Chicago Irish Catholic, I was excited to dive into this. This should’ve been advertised more explicitly as Christian literature, as I have no patience for sneaky indoctrination.
Besides that, it’s very clumsily written with phrases like “his good looks as handsome as ever.“ By the end of the first chapter, you knew exactly how this was going to end.