A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries.
London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia, Ramsforth will face the hangman s noose in a week s time if Veronica cannot find the real killer.
But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of the many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural historian colleague Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer a ruthless villain who not only took Artemisia s life in cold blood but is happy to see Ramsforth hang for the crime. From a Bohemian artists colony to a royal palace to a subterranean grotto with a decadent history, the investigation proves to be a very perilous undertaking indeed.

A Spear of Summer Grass, The Dead Travel Quickly, and the Lady Julia Grey series are all written by Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A Spear of Summer Grass, The Dead Travel Fast, and the Lady Julia Grey series. The first book in the Lady Julia Grey series, Quiet in the Dead, won the RITA Award for Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements in 2008. Deanna and her family reside in Virginia. Deanna Raybourn's website is deannaraybourn.com.

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ISBN 13	9780451476159
ISBN 10	0451476158
Title	A Perilous Undertaking
Author	Deanna Raybourn
Series	Veronica Speedwell Mystery
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Berkley Books
Year published	2017-01-10
Number of pages	352
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