The Lost Girls
(2025)(The second book in the Mary Shelley Investigations series)
A novel by Donna Gowland
Don’t miss this page-turning historical mystery! For fans of Mary Shelley, Daphne Du Maurier, Diane Setterfield and Laura Purcell.
Is someone snatching dead bodies…?
1814, London
After triumphantly solving a murder case in Paris, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Shelly return to London penniless.
As Percy is still married to his estranged wife, he and Mary are shunned from polite society for living together out of wedlock.
Isolated and trapped in squalid lodgings, Mary finds herself alone while Percy escapes to the tavern. And one evening when she goes looking for him, a dead body is found.
But when Percy and Mary arrive at the scene the dead girl is gone…
When she receives a note from an old friend and discovers another girl is missing, Mary wonders if the crimes are connected.
What happened to the body? Was it taken by the murderer?
Can Mary and Percy come together to solve another tricky case…?
THE LOST GIRLS is the second book in the Mary Shelley Investigation series: thrilling Gothic murder mysteries with a tenacious literary heroine working as a female sleuth.
THE MARY SHELLEY INVESTIGATIONS SERIES:
Book One: The Missing Wife
Book Two: The Lost Girls
Book Three: Death at the Altar
Genre: Mystery
Is someone snatching dead bodies…?
1814, London
After triumphantly solving a murder case in Paris, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Shelly return to London penniless.
As Percy is still married to his estranged wife, he and Mary are shunned from polite society for living together out of wedlock.
Isolated and trapped in squalid lodgings, Mary finds herself alone while Percy escapes to the tavern. And one evening when she goes looking for him, a dead body is found.
But when Percy and Mary arrive at the scene the dead girl is gone…
When she receives a note from an old friend and discovers another girl is missing, Mary wonders if the crimes are connected.
What happened to the body? Was it taken by the murderer?
Can Mary and Percy come together to solve another tricky case…?
THE LOST GIRLS is the second book in the Mary Shelley Investigation series: thrilling Gothic murder mysteries with a tenacious literary heroine working as a female sleuth.
THE MARY SHELLEY INVESTIGATIONS SERIES:
Book One: The Missing Wife
Book Two: The Lost Girls
Book Three: Death at the Altar
Genre: Mystery
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