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Myra Aldridge, an ambitious Boston journalist, didn't travel two thousand miles to find a husband—she came to be a partner in the town's struggling newspaper. Disgraced editor Nathaniel Sinclair has retreated to Wyoming to bury a career-ending scandal. He needs a silent typesetter, not an opinionated partner with radical ideas. Convinced his tarnished reputation is contagious, he is determined to keep his distance from the spirited woman who challenges his every headline. But when Myra fearlessly chases a dangerous lead into the heart of a corruption scandal, Nathaniel realizes she ...

On a lonely cliff above the harbour, Crowthorne Observatory is meant to produce neat numbers and impressed Admirals, not corpses in the courtyard. Cassia Fenwick, resident calculator with an inconvenient conscience, is already in trouble for insisting the western chronometer tell the truth. When the director walks up to the rooftop for a triumphant comet demonstration and instead takes a very efficient one way trip over the parapet, her columns of figures become the least comfortable thing in the building. Enter Captain Edmund Verney, the Board of Longitude’s problem solver of last resort...

If anyone insists Christmas at Drury Lane is wholesome, do not look above the scenery. Miss Sybil Merriweather, wardrobe mistress and sworn enemy of insolent seams, can mend a sagging stocking in three stitches and silence a chorus with one look. She cannot, however, persuade the theatre’s fake snow to stay in its sack, or its leading man’s waistcoat buttons to stop tattling. “Buttons are honest creatures. They told the truth when men did not.” The season, naturally, takes that as a challenge. Enter Gideon Ashe of the Society for the Improvement of Public Morals, armed with ...

Mrs Phoebe Hartwell, widowed apothecary and unofficial village doctor, is quite used to keeping Hartleigh alive with nothing more than herbs, vinegar, and stubbornness. What she is not used to is a tall, inconveniently attractive Scottish physician arriving from Edinburgh under a cloud of disgrace… or a steward dropping dead after taking her sleeping draught while half the parish is polishing its Sunday shoes. When Mr Pritchard fails to wake up and smells suspiciously of bitter almonds, Phoebe’s neat world tips sideways. Sir Montague wants the death declared natural, the coroner wants ...

Newmarket has rules: horses run, gentlemen cheat politely, and anyone named Linton keeps her head down and her ledger up to date. When the favourite for the Prince’s Cup collapses in his stall and the odds on half the card start behaving like they know the future, Beatrice Linton’s quiet gift for numbers puts her squarely between a killer and the Jockey Club. Tasked with untangling a trail of anonymous wagers and one very dead four-legged darling, Beatrice finds herself in reluctant partnership with Sir Rowan Delacourt, the Club’s resident conscience in perfectly tied linen. He wants ...

Hydrotherapy is meant to soothe the nerves, not drown the investors. At the Royal Hydropathic, it has started doing both. Come for the cure, stay murdered. Miss Beatrice Harrow, lady physician with a talent for calm diagnoses and inconvenient honesty, expects difficult lungs, sulky vapour, and guests who cheat on their prescribed walks. She does not expect Alderman Josiah Frobisher, the hotel’s loudest shareholder, to be found very quiet indeed in the grand marble bath after a “restorative” treatment. The water smells wrong, the electrical apparatus looks offensively innocent, and the...

There are places one expects to find dead railway directors. The message room of the Central Telegraph Office is not supposed to be one of them. Senior telegraph clerk Miss Clara Nevin spends her nights routing London’s secrets along humming wires, turning other people’s crises into neat lines of ink. Then Mr Arthur Lestrange of the North-Eastern Railway is discovered sitting unnaturally upright at her instrument, politely strangled with a coil of spare wire, and a single Home Office message quietly disappears from her rack. Enter Mr Elias Blackwood, discreet inquiry agent with an ...

One dead patron. One poisonous Palm House. One inspector who keeps noticing the same woman. The difficulty with unveiling a grand new Palm House is that someone invariably decides to die in it before the tea has been poured. When Lady Helena Westerleigh collapses face first into Briarwick Conservatory’s prize orchid at the opening ceremony, polite society blames the heat, the brass railings, and possibly the sandwiches, in that order. Miss Beatrice Elwood, botanical illustrator and reluctant expert in poisonous foliage, quietly notices the wrong spores on the right gloves and realises the...

The Ladies’ Minerva Library is very keen on improving the female mind. It is much less keen on having a dead clergyman flattened under a bookcase in the restricted pamphlet room. Especially when the room was locked, the pamphlets are loudly against novels, and the keys were in Eleanor Pryce’s sensible pocket the whole time. Eleanor, assistant librarian and quiet smuggler of scandalous Gothics to deserving matrons, has two problems. First, a righteous reverend who has obligingly become a locked room murder in the pamphlet room. Second, Henry Blackwood, a dangerously charming publisher ...

Proper young ladies are meant to perfect their French verbs, not witness a murder by chocolate at a ladies’ academy. Lydia Ashcroft, fallen gentlewoman and ruthlessly competent instructress, has three priorities: keep Madame Rochfort’s Academy solvent, keep thirty girls from disgracing themselves over the tea things, and keep her younger brother in school. When their most important patron keels over during morning chocolate in a very final fashion, Lydia smells more than a weak heart. Cups have moved, chocolate smells wrong, and the magistrate is distressingly keen to call it Providence...

A fiancé, a corpse, and a house party that is not allowed to go home. Clemency Harrow does not object to marriage in principle; she simply prefers not to be traded for canal shares and an allegedly reformed rake before breakfast. Packed off to Ashbourne Hall to meet her scandalous intended, she expects awkward teas, pious small talk, and a jury of relatives deciding whether she is worthy of a disreputable earl with an excellent jawline. Instead, her most tedious cousin keels over in the pudding course. The wine becomes the most discussed guest at table, the blancmange looks guilty, and ...

Lord Toby Allenby is very fond of women. His brother Harry is not. So, when their great aunt leaves a bizarre caveat in her will Toby assumes the inheritance is his for the taking, providing he can find a suitable wife. But add to the mix a scheming mistress, an ambitious strumpet, and a very accident-prone young lady, and Toby finds his quest not quite as simple as he first supposed.

Lights, camera, corpse; Primrose Studios is meant to uplift the nation’s morals, not leave a patron strangled in the wardrobe between the sackcloth and the velvet. Respectable pictures are hard enough to sell without a moral reformer dying in the costumes and threatening to ruin the box office from beyond the grave. Clara Ashcombe, junior scenario writer and reluctant conscience of London’s most improving picture house, spends her days trimming sins for the censors and adding railings to staircases. When Miss Temperance Vale of the Society for the Improvement of Modern Amusements turns ...

Dead satirist, thawing hearts, absolutely frozen toes: welcome to the cozy Regency mystery set on the Thames when London decides the river is a perfectly sensible place for a Christmas fair. Anne Redgrave sells improving tracts on the front of her Frost Fair stall and anonymous political broadsides under the counter. When a notorious satirist is crushed beneath his neatly sabotaged booth, Anne finds herself with a dead neighbour, a very dangerous engraving in hiding, and the unwelcome attention of Mr Hawke of the Thames River Police, who disapproves of almost everything except inconvenient ...

CORAZÓN DE TEMPLARIO Inglaterra, año del Señor de 1191. Catherine Rumsfield, hija del Conde de Rumsfield, recibe la terrible noticia de la muerte de su hermano mayor, Michael, en Tierra Santa. Muchos habitantes de la Europa Occidental habían partido a las Cruzadas deseosos de conquistar Jerusalén y probar a sangre y fuego su fervor religioso, y Michael, uno más de esos cientos de nobles que acudieron a una llamada del Rey Ricardo Corazón de León, cae en Limassol, legando a su familia una inmensa deuda económica con la Orden del Temple... Catherine se hace responsable de los ...

Miniaturist Dorothea Pemberton is paid to make people look better than they deserve. Unfortunately, when a gilded portrait and its temperamental critic share a private viewing at the Royal Academy, the critic drops dead behind the curtain and Dorothea is the only one in the room who notices that the cracks in the paint are lying. Dragged into the scandal by a duke with an inconvenient conscience, Dorothea finds herself assisting Lucian Fallowfield and a dryly amused Bow Street runner as they peel back layers of altered varnish, reworked faces, and very expensive secrets. A restorer who ...

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On Drury Lane's brightest night, the Lord Chamberlain's censor walks into the property room alive and leaves flattened under a fallen backdrop, script of a new satire still in his hand. Miss Eliza March, printer's daughter turned reluctant poor relation, only wanted to see star comedian Nathaniel Quill at work; instead she finds a dead official, a damaged rope, and a theatre full of people who would prefer the whole thing quietly labelled an accident. With Bow Street on its way and the licence hanging by a frayed line, Eliza's inconvenient eye for detail drags her into an uneasy partnership...

The violins keep losing the tune, the marmalade cakes are a health hazard, and Miss Julia Amberley’s quiet social exile in Bath has just tripped over a corpse. When the man who once ruined her life drops dead beside the Assembly Rooms supper table, sticky with ratafia and orange peel, Julia finds herself exactly where polite society likes her least: at the center of the scandal, with her hand inconveniently near the body and half the room eager to improve the story. Captain Miles Rutland, cavalry officer turned master of ceremonies, has one job: keep Bath’s entertainments orderly and ...

The breakfast bells start clanging. They are not announcing toast. They are announcing trouble. Prudence Ashdown runs Bramblewick House on keys, rules, and the firm belief that titled guests should be seen and never heard tugging a bell pull like a dying swan. So when the stillroom key vanishes, Lord Rafe Kesterton, Marquess of Vellamere, responds with his favorite pastime: expecting perfection from other people’s hands. Polite society adores order, especially when someone else is breaking a sweat to maintain it. Then Prudence opens the stillroom and finds a dead butler, a tea tray set ...