Death of a dancer

By Caro Peacock

Subjects: Women private investigators, Suspense, Private investigators, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crimes against, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Artists, fiction, Women dancers, Thriller, History

Description: Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for Liberty Lane, a new heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah Waters's Victorian novels.A public spat between two dancers at a London theatre has a dramatic conclusion that wasn't in the script: one dead, the other arrested for murder. As far as the jury's concerned, it's an open-and-shut case, but Liberty Lane believes otherwise. Soon she's leading her own investigation, in a desperate race against the hangman's noose. And while the criminal underworld may be no place for a lady, there's no place for a criminal to hide once Liberty's on the case...