{"product_id":"opium-purge-book-elizabeth-bailey-9781912546497","title":"The Opium Purge","description":"\u003cb\u003eLady Fan and her crime-fighting family are back  For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA dark shadow has been brought from the West Indies to an English estate...\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e1790, England\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLord Francis and Lady Ottilia Fanshawe are preparing for the birth of their first child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Lady Fan won't let a little thing like pregnancy get in the way of solving a local mystery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir neighbour - Sir Joslin Cadel - who recently returned from a sugar plantation in Barbados, has collapsed and died on his doorstep. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd his young ward, Tamasine Roy, claims to have murdered him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith Tamasine clearly suffering from some kind of mental disorder, and the rest of Cadel's household acting suspiciously, it is clear all is not as it seems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy did Sir Joslin suddenly return to England? What happened to Tamasine's parents?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCould this seemingly angelic young woman really be a murderess...? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE OPIUM PURGE is the third book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century London. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives-and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey ' - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeritorious Mysteries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work' - \u003cb\u003eShe Reads Novels\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well  Her heroine sleuth, \u003cb\u003eOttilia, is a fantastic character.' - Historical Romance UK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK ONE: The Gilded Shroud\u003cbr\u003eBOOK TWO: The Deathly Portent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK THREE: The Opium Purge \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK FOUR: The Candlelit Coffin\u003cbr\u003eBOOK FIVE: The Mortal Blow\u003cbr\u003eBOOK SIX: The Fateful Marriage\u003cbr\u003eBOOK SEVEN: The Dagger Dance\u003cbr\u003eBOOK EIGHT: The Unwanted Corpse\u003cbr\u003eBOOK NINE: The Vengeance Trail\u003cbr\u003eBOOK TEN: The Hanging Cheat\u003cbr\u003eBOOK ELEVEN: The Killing Cave","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49542031671569,"sku":"GOR011751907","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49649443078417,"sku":"CIN1912546493G","price":10.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912546493.jpg?v=1751282512","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/opium-purge-book-elizabeth-bailey-9781912546497","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}