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Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings. Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to attend one of Mr. Browns infamous readings, during which he implies that Buckingham Palace will soon be shrouded in deaths dark veil. Well acquainted with death, Violet shrugs him off as a charlatan--until his sinister divinations begin to prove true. . .Violet wonders if something foul is in the cards when the aristocratic young friends of the queens daughter begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Her suspicions only grow when one of Londons moralists, a group bent on repealing the law that forces prostitutes into hospitals, suffers a similar fate.
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A MURDEROUS MALADY, Book 2 of the Florence Nightingale mystery series, was published on May 7, 2019, during National Nurses Week, which is always the week leading up to Florence's birthday on May 12th. The year 2020 marks 200 years since Florence's birth.On September 1, 2020, Sourcebooks will release Christine's latest entry in the LADY OF ASHES historical mystery series featuring Violet Harper, a Victorian undertaker with a passion for her macabre work. THE DEADLY HOURS is an anthology written with Susanna Kearsley, C.S. Harris, and Anna Lee Huber, and follows the travels of a cursed pocket watch through time.In addition to six novels and three short stories in the LADY OF ASHES series, Christine has also written several historical novels about women in unusual professions, including THE QUEEN'S DOLLMAKER (a dollmaker to Marie Antoinette) , A ROYAL LIKENESS (an apprentice to the great waxworker, Madame Tussaud) , and BY THE KING'S DESIGN (a draper to the Prince Regent) .Learn more about Christine at www.christinetrent.com or follow her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ChristineTrentBooks.
