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Shadow at the Morgue: A Spencer & Reid Mystery

Shadow at the Morgue: A Spencer & Reid Mystery

Devlin, Cara

Paperback

Series: Spencer & Reid Mysteries, Book 1

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798992305708
Publisher: First Cup Press
Published: Jan 20 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
An acquaintance with death

Haunted by her family's unsolved murder sixteen years ago, Leonora Spencer is familiar with death. As an assistant in her elderly uncle's London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also isn't opposed to helping during postmortems, when his skilled hands begin to shake. After a thief breaks into the morgue and steals a locket from a corpse, Leo is determined to understand why, even if it means going against Detective Inspector Jasper Reid's express orders to keep her nose out of it.

A closely guarded past

Born and bred in the East End slums, Jasper Reid's recent promotion to the detective's branch at Scotland Yard is a long step up from his murky past...a past he can't afford to reveal to anyone. The last thing he needs is a muddled case connecting to the criminals he once associated with-and to the well-known eccentric Leo Spencer. Her stubborn resolve to undermine Jasper's investigation tests his patience and the complicated history they share.

A murderer closing in

When the missing locket and a handful of suspicious deaths point to a mysterious buried object, Jasper grudgingly accepts Leo's help to locate it. But someone is watching, and the more they uncover about a deadly blackmail plot, the closer Leo and Jasper get to becoming the killer's next targets.

Shadow at the Morgue is the first book in Cara Devlin's new Spencer & Reid historical mystery series set in Victorian London. Perfect for fans of PBS Masterpiece's Miss Scarlet & the Duke, and readers of Irina Shapiro, Andrea Penrose, and C.S. Harris.

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