A Curious Beginning
In her thrilling new series, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries, returns once more to Victorian England…and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell.London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is...
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In her thrilling new series, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries, returns once more to Victorian England…and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell.London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781785650482 (1785650483)
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Pages no: 393
Edition language: English
Series: Veronica Speedwell Mystery (#1)
This is a splendid late-Victorian romp introducing the indomitable Veronica Speedwell: adventuress, lepidopterist and reader of crime mysteries In "A Curious Beginning", I've found, rather belatedly, given that book four came out in 2019, a series that I'm eager to read more of. This came ...
Veronica's last guardian has died and she is alone in the world. When she returns to her cottage after the funeral she finds a man ransacking it and she is rescued by a baron. They travel to London where the baron puts her under the protection of Stoker. The next morning the baron is dead--murder...
A very interesting mystery. Well written with fascinating characters. I look forward to reading more in this series.
Veronica Speedwell is home to nurse her dying aunt. Her world starts to fall apart when she dies, Veronica has plans for her future that she has to put on hold to survive. Into her life comes an enigmatic German baron who knows something about her past. He passes her to his friend Stoker for her sa...
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