In national bestselling author Victoria Thompsons Gaslight mysteries, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect them from the worst crimes. Now, the two must track down a criminal preying on innocent women
Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position on the force. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, hes assigned to a new casefinding a missing young woman who had been responding to lonely hearts ads in the paper before she disappeared. Malloy fears the worst, knowing that the grifters who place such ads often do much more than simply abscond with their victims.
But as Sarah and Malloy delve deeper into a twisted plot targeting the citys single women, its their partnershipboth professional and privatethat winds up in the greatest peril
Theres not enough stars to rate this with the rating it deserves. Every single book of Victorias Gaslight Mystery is just GREAT!!! Her writing never disappoints, the plot is well developed and followed through, the characters are people who could be your own family/friends/relatives.and even though its longer than most books I read 300+ pages, I pretty much read it one sitting, just couldnt put it down and got really cranky when people thought they could bothering me while I reading it!
Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position on the force. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, hes assigned to a new casefinding a missing young woman who had been responding to lonely hearts ads in the paper before she disappeared. Malloy fears the worst, knowing that the grifters who place such ads often do much more than simply abscond with their victims.
But as Sarah and Malloy delve deeper into a twisted plot targeting the citys single women, its their partnershipboth professional and privatethat winds up in the greatest peril
Theres not enough stars to rate this with the rating it deserves. Every single book of Victorias Gaslight Mystery is just GREAT!!! Her writing never disappoints, the plot is well developed and followed through, the characters are people who could be your own family/friends/relatives.and even though its longer than most books I read 300+ pages, I pretty much read it one sitting, just couldnt put it down and got really cranky when people thought they could bothering me while I reading it!
