Current of Darkness: Desire and Deceit in the Gilded Age - Couverture souple

Brighton, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798987696453

Editeur : Ashwood Press, 2024

Synopsis

The latest book in the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries, a book club favorite. Read the series books in any order!

“ . . . writing that is on par with the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . . .” - Manhattan Book Review

“ . . . stellar . . . a winning story of action sabotage, cutthroat business dealings, and women daring to be something new at the dawn of the American century . . .” - BookLife Reviews

Haunted by her past, detective Sarah Payne immerses herself in a new case . . . while a vengeful Alicia Miller seizes the reins of her murdered husband’s company . . .

A secret meeting in nearby Niagara Falls lures beautiful Sarah Payne undercover . . . behind the bright façade of the honeymoon playground and into a much darker place—the strange and perilous underworld of the booming electric power industry.

In this shadowy demimonde, a dangerous cabal of union bosses, saboteurs, and tycoons conspire to destroy handsome, enigmatic industrialist Charles Kendall—and will stop at nothing, including murder, to accomplish their ends. This high stakes game of industrial espionage threatens to pull Sarah into a riptide of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing . . . and silence her before she uncovers the truth.

Meanwhile, in fashionable Ashwood, sultry widow Alicia Miller seizes power at her murdered husband’s envelope company—only to find herself pitted against the new majority owner, who has his own ideas about women in business. But cunning and captivating Alicia has ideas, too . . . and is determined to see them through, even if it means bending—or breaking—a few rules along the way.

Both women will have to find the courage and resourcefulness to survive . . . and set aside their own simmering feud to find a way out—together.

Dive with them into the murky depths below the gleaming surface of the Gilded Age . . . in Robert Brighton’s Current of Darkness.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Brighton is an authority on the Gilded Age and a great believer that the Victorian era was anything but stuffy. On the contrary, in his books Brighton exposes the gritty realities of the time against a backdrop of meticulous research. His Avenging Angel Detective Agency(TM) Mysteries-in a category Brighton calls "immersive historical fiction"-have earned multiple awards for fiction. When he is not sniffing out unsolved mysteries, Brighton is an adventurer. He has traveled in more than 56 countries around the world, usually on only a few dollars a day, throwing himself into every situation his characters will face - from underground ruins to opium dens - and (so far) living to tell about it. A graduate of the Sorbonne, Brighton is an avid student of early twentieth century history and literature, a relentless investigator, and an admirer of Emily Dickinson and Jim Morrison. Currently he lives in Virginia with his wife and their two cats.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashwood Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798987696453
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg