Margaret Demeray: Books 4-6
(2026)(A book in the Dr Margaret Demeray series)
An omnibus of novels by Paula Harmon
Dr Margaret Demeray: pathologist, suffragette, campaigner. Independent, proud, skilled and no longer bored. But the threat to peace is increasing and it’s harder than ever to know who to trust.
Dying to be Heard
London Spring 1913. Would you betray a friend to save a country? Would you betray a country to avenge a friend?
Margaret’s loyalties are conflicted when a parcel bomb brings casualties to her hospital and her suffragette Maude seems implicated. Fox thinks someone is hiding behind suffragette militancy to stop him finding stolen diplomatic documents which will undermine a fragile peace treaty. Margaret thinks a series of murders and the missing documents are intrinsically linked. Can she believe Maude or is Maude putting a cause before every principle she’s ever held?
A Justified Death
London November 1913: Staff wanted. Prospects excellent. Death - or worse - a certainty.
When fourteen year old Rosie is knocked down in the fog, Dr Margaret Demeray suspects she had been escaping kidnappers masquerading as an employment agency. But the police are more interested in the cold blooded murder of a respectable man than a girl like Rosie who’s brought trouble on herself, and Rosie won’t talk, other than to beg Margaret to stop her friend Violet being caught by the same people. Digging deeper reveals more than Margaret and Fox bargained for. Not only do they need to find Violet, but they need to round up the people prepared to sell her to the highest bidder to raise money for illegal arms. And it’s just possible that they’re closer to the main perpetrator than they ever anticipated.
A Deadly Promise
Summer 1914. When millions are about to go to war, what does one small life matter?
A young man’s murder in a rough London street seems nothing more than a robbery gone wrong. But Inspector Silvermann has his suspicions and hands the case over to Fox.
When a healthy man dies close to where the young man was murdered, Margaret's sure the two cases are linked. But getting evidence proves a challenge when Margaret is battling to keep her job, Fox is trying to stop arms smuggling to Ireland, and war in Western Europe seems inevitable.
As they uncover stolen identities and long-forgotten betrayals, Margaret and Fox find themselves putting friends and colleagues under increasing scrutiny. And the more she discovers, the more Margaret wonders who she can really trust.
A web of treachery threatens Britain, and one wrong step could lead to disaster.
Genre: Mystery
Dying to be Heard
London Spring 1913. Would you betray a friend to save a country? Would you betray a country to avenge a friend?
Margaret’s loyalties are conflicted when a parcel bomb brings casualties to her hospital and her suffragette Maude seems implicated. Fox thinks someone is hiding behind suffragette militancy to stop him finding stolen diplomatic documents which will undermine a fragile peace treaty. Margaret thinks a series of murders and the missing documents are intrinsically linked. Can she believe Maude or is Maude putting a cause before every principle she’s ever held?
A Justified Death
London November 1913: Staff wanted. Prospects excellent. Death - or worse - a certainty.
When fourteen year old Rosie is knocked down in the fog, Dr Margaret Demeray suspects she had been escaping kidnappers masquerading as an employment agency. But the police are more interested in the cold blooded murder of a respectable man than a girl like Rosie who’s brought trouble on herself, and Rosie won’t talk, other than to beg Margaret to stop her friend Violet being caught by the same people. Digging deeper reveals more than Margaret and Fox bargained for. Not only do they need to find Violet, but they need to round up the people prepared to sell her to the highest bidder to raise money for illegal arms. And it’s just possible that they’re closer to the main perpetrator than they ever anticipated.
A Deadly Promise
Summer 1914. When millions are about to go to war, what does one small life matter?
A young man’s murder in a rough London street seems nothing more than a robbery gone wrong. But Inspector Silvermann has his suspicions and hands the case over to Fox.
When a healthy man dies close to where the young man was murdered, Margaret's sure the two cases are linked. But getting evidence proves a challenge when Margaret is battling to keep her job, Fox is trying to stop arms smuggling to Ireland, and war in Western Europe seems inevitable.
As they uncover stolen identities and long-forgotten betrayals, Margaret and Fox find themselves putting friends and colleagues under increasing scrutiny. And the more she discovers, the more Margaret wonders who she can really trust.
A web of treachery threatens Britain, and one wrong step could lead to disaster.
Genre: Mystery
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