The Ace of Clubs

Summary

The one secret which could destroy everything ...
After financial disaster and the zeppelin bombing, the city of Bridges is reeling. Three of the four Families are implicated, and an inquest is called to investigate.
After her failure to prove Jack Diamond's guilt in David Bryce's kidnapping and the deaths of her friends, private eye and mobster's moll Jacqueline Spadros has had enough. While she and her former lover Joseph Kerr try to learn who killed their family friend, they also begin making plans to leave the city.
But the secrets Jacqui has kept over the years are coming back to cause her serious trouble. Will she be able to escape Bridges? Or will she be forced to face the terrible consequences of her lies and trickery once and for all?
Warning: language, alcohol/smoking, foul language, sexual content, infidelity, and attempted rape.
This is chapter 3 of a 13-part serial novel:
The Jacq of Spades
The Queen of Diamonds
The Ace of Clubs <- you are here
The King of Hearts
The Ten of Spades
The Five of Diamonds
The Two of Hearts
The Three of Spades
The Knave of Hearts
The Four of Clubs
The Jack of Diamonds (print version coming October 2024)
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