Laura Joh Rowland, The Hangman’s Secret Makes Crime Reads BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF 2019 (SO FAR)

Laura Joh Rowland, The Hangman’s Secret

London, 1890

This is the second in Rowland’s new Sarah Baine series, set in Victorian London. Baine works as a photographer when she’s not solving crimes with her loyal group of friends; in The Hangman’s Secret, Baine comes up against villain Amelia Carlisle, based on a number of late 19th century baby farmers who took in scores of young children only to kill them through slow neglect (or outright murder). Rowland is the author of two other historical crime fiction series: the San Ichiro mystery series, set in early 19th century Japan, and the Secrets of Charlotte Bronte series, in which Charlotte finds herself embroiled in many an investigation while romancing a secret agent.

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Coming Soon from Laura Joh Rowland

	Coming Soon from Laura Joh Rowland

A Mortal Likeness: A Victorian Mystery Laura Joh Rowland   Releasing on January 09, 2018   Kindle Edition: $12.99    Hardcover: $26.99       Learn more    Amazon Editor You have subscribed to new release emails for Laura Joh Rowland. You won't want to miss this new book.

A photographer in Whitechapel, London, Sarah Bain is also a private detective—skilled at capturing others’ dark secrets, and expert at keeping her own. When a wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant, all of London joins in, hoping to win that money for themselves. Usually discouraged by a saturated market, Sarah is instead curiously allured as she realizes the case hits much closer to home than she first thought.

As she dives in, she discovers a photograph of baby Robin Mariner and his mother. But it eerily resembles the post-mortem photographs Sarah, herself, takes of deceased children posed to look as if they were alive. Now it’s unclear whether the kidnapping is a cover-up to hide the reality of his disappearance, or if it’s truly a cry for help.

The clock is ticking and Sarah must uncover the truth before her past catches up to her in A Mortal Likeness, the gripping follow-up to bestselling author Laura Joh Rowland’s The Ripper’s Shadow.