ReviewsPraise for Deanna Raybourn and A Curious Beginning "Wickedly clever and devilishly amusing...Veronica Speedwell is a joy--unflappable, unrepentant, and thoroughly delightful."--Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series "Veronica Speedwell is sure to join the greats of mystery fiction."--Alan Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of the Flavia de Luce series "The eccentricities of Victorian England receive a rousing look in the highly entertaining A Curious Beginning. ..Energetic storytelling."-- South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Creating strong character pairings, placing the action in unexpectedly unusual but actual historical settings, and folding it all into a clever mystery are hallmarks of this author's magical, signature style...This new series starts off with a bang."-- Library Journal (starred review) "I love this book! Brings us the powerful Veronica Speedwell, who triumphs over adversity and danger with wit, charm, and uncanny determination. A real find."--Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Virgin River series
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisThe "wickedly clever and devilishly amusing"* Veronica Speedwell returns for a rousing adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries. London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task--saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Ramsforth, accused of the brutal murder of his mistress, Artemisia, will face the hangman's noose in a week's time if the real killer is not found. But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural-historian colleague, Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer. 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... *SusanElia MacNeal