Keeping bad company

By Caro Peacock

Subjects: Investigation, Women private investigators, Liberty Lane (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Murder, Fiction, Opium trade, Social conditions, Detective and mystery stories

Description: London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty makes a connection between a dead merchant and escalating rows with China over the lucrative opium trade. Can she solve a murder that took place six months ago, almost 5000 miles away?