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Garden of Sins
Book 6 in the Victorian Mysteries series.
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London, November 1890. After a train crash, Sarah Bain Barrett and her husband discover a passenger who was strangled before the collision. Their search for the woman’s identity leads to Cremorne Gardens, a riverside pleasure ground combining theatre, carnival acts and displays of human difference.
A possible royal connection forces Sarah, Barrett, Hugh and Mick to investigate in secrecy while the press pursues the story. At the same time, Sarah’s father stands trial for the rape and murder of a teenage girl decades earlier. The public spectacle of the trial and the manufactured glamour of Cremorne both conceal people whose survival depends on deciding which version of events the crowd will believe.