Book description
Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for
Liberty Lane: the plucky heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah
Waters's Victorian novels.
London. Summer 1839. And the temperature is rising as Liberty Lane
takes on her strangest case yet.
Deranged aristocrat Lord Brinkburn is nearing death and his elder son,
Stephen, is expecting to inherit the title. But Lady Brinkburn's sudden
announcement that Stephen is illegitimate throws the family into
turmoil. Tensions reach boiling point between the two brothers, one of
whom stands to gain everything, and they come to blows in public - much
to the amusement of London Society.
Liberty is engaged privately to get to the truth of the matter, but a
macabre murder raises the stakes considerably…added to which she finds
her own judgement being undermined by the beguiling ways of Lady
Brinkburn. She is only too aware that time is running out - one of the
brothers may be next, but which will it be…? Caro Peacock grew up in a
farmhouse that, for most of her childhood, contained half a dozen
brothers, sisters and cousins, twice as many cats and dogs, no central
heating and one bathroom that stopped working every time the spring that
supplied it silted up. This possibly bred the habit of curling up in a
quiet place with a book and, later, a passion for travel that led to a
rather disrupted education. Somewhere along the line, she acquired a
great interest in Victorian history - which she considers a much
misunderstood period - and particularly the part played in it by
independently-minded women. Caro rides horses, climbs, trampolines and
spends some time every year studying wild flowers in the Alps.
