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Sign up todayA Curious Beginning
Veronica Speedwell Mysteries: Book #1
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Angele Masters
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Length
10 hours 51 minutes
Language
English
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“The uproarious beginning of a mystery series featuring perplexing mysteries, mischevious capers, a broodingly muscle-bound taxidermist, and a dauntlessly quick-witted lepodiatrist. This series, set in Victorian England, presents two main characters, one of gentility fallen from rank and the other a secret illigitimate of the royal bloodline, content with rearing against the strict values threatening to overcome them. Thrilling and cozy -- steamy and humurous - intriguing and addictive, this series is perfect for fans of mysteries led by an inspiring and audacious female sleuth. ”
— Lambie • Underground Books
Summary
London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry-and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker-a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth.
