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ID: 416977
Title: Daughters of Night
Author: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Narrator: Lucy Scott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15:29:50
Language: English
Release date: 02-18-21
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical
Summary:
'The best historical crime novel I will read this year' The Times
'This is right up there with the best of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor' Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule
From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinsons Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . .
London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline Caro Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a highly paid prostitute, at which point they cease to care entirely. But Caro has motives of her own for wanting to see justice done, and so sets out to solve the crime herself. Enlisting the help of thieftaker Peregrine Child, their inquiry delves into the hidden corners of Georgian society, a world of artifice, deception and secret lives.
But with many gentlemen refusing to speak about their dealings with the dead woman, and Caros own reputation under threat, finding the killer will be harder, and more treacherous, than she can know . . .
'Spectacularly brilliant . . . One of the most enjoyable and enduring stories I have ever read' James O'Brien, journalist, author and LBC Presenter
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