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Portrait of Peril
Book 5 in the Victorian Mysteries series.
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London, October 1890. Sarah Bain’s wedding to Detective Sergeant Barrett is interrupted when the body of spirit photographer Charles Firth is discovered in the church crypt. One of Firth’s plates appears to show a pale figure attacking him, encouraging claims that a ghost committed the crime.
Sarah’s sceptical investigation enters the city’s spiritualist circles, where mediums, scientists, debunkers and wealthy believers compete for authority. A second death during a ghost hunt widens the suspect list, while the return of Sarah’s long-missing father revives an unresolved murder from her childhood. Fraudulent images and family memory become equally difficult to expose.
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