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A Fatal Rendezvous in Mayfair
(2021)(The first book in the London Ladies in Peril Mystery series)
A novel by Beverley Oakley
A vanished banker. A desperate lady playing the spirits. A deadly game of deception.
After two desperate years imprisoned in a foreign asylum by her cruel husband, Lily, Lady Bradden, is abducted by a ruthless charlatan and dragged back to London.
Her only chance of survival is to assume a false identity.
Veiled and enigmatic, Lily becomes Mrs Eustace, a fashionable spirit medium who summons the dead for grieving aristocrats. But when she is commanded to contact the ghost of a wealthy banker who has vanished without a trace, her precarious masquerade draws her into a dangerous web of Mayfair brothels, Russian espionage, and murder.
Hamish McTavish, the uncompromising editor of Manners and Morals magazine, has built his reputation exposing London's frauds and charlatans. The mysterious new clairvoyant should be his next sensational target.
But Hamish has seen Lily before.
He recognises her as the captivating woman he encountered at Madame Chambon's notorious pleasure house, and the more determined he becomes to uncover her secrets, the harder it is to resist the forbidden attraction between them.
Then one of Madame Chambon's most sought-after courtesans is brutally murdered.
With a ruthless Russian diplomat closing in, and an anonymous blackmailer threatening more deaths, Lily and Hamish must join forces to expose a killer. But in a world built on lies, trusting each other may be the deadliest gamble of all.
A Fatal Rendezvous in Mayfair is the first book in the atmospheric London Ladies in Peril trilogy, a sweeping Victorian Gothic romance mystery filled with danger, deception and forbidden desire.
Genre: Historical Mystery
After two desperate years imprisoned in a foreign asylum by her cruel husband, Lily, Lady Bradden, is abducted by a ruthless charlatan and dragged back to London.
Her only chance of survival is to assume a false identity.
Veiled and enigmatic, Lily becomes Mrs Eustace, a fashionable spirit medium who summons the dead for grieving aristocrats. But when she is commanded to contact the ghost of a wealthy banker who has vanished without a trace, her precarious masquerade draws her into a dangerous web of Mayfair brothels, Russian espionage, and murder.
Hamish McTavish, the uncompromising editor of Manners and Morals magazine, has built his reputation exposing London's frauds and charlatans. The mysterious new clairvoyant should be his next sensational target.
But Hamish has seen Lily before.
He recognises her as the captivating woman he encountered at Madame Chambon's notorious pleasure house, and the more determined he becomes to uncover her secrets, the harder it is to resist the forbidden attraction between them.
Then one of Madame Chambon's most sought-after courtesans is brutally murdered.
With a ruthless Russian diplomat closing in, and an anonymous blackmailer threatening more deaths, Lily and Hamish must join forces to expose a killer. But in a world built on lies, trusting each other may be the deadliest gamble of all.
A Fatal Rendezvous in Mayfair is the first book in the atmospheric London Ladies in Peril trilogy, a sweeping Victorian Gothic romance mystery filled with danger, deception and forbidden desire.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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