A Mortal Curiosity
By Ann Granger
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
It's 1864 and Lizzie Martin is leaving London for the south coast of England to be the companion of Lucy Craven, a teenager who lives in seclusion with her aunts and has recently lost an infant daughter to illness. En route, Lizzie meets Doctor Lefebre, a slightly off-putting gentleman headed for the same destination. Lefebre, it turns out, is an alienist hired by Lucy's family to determine whether the young woman is mad. And he discloses something shocking: Lucy Craven doesn't believe her daughter is dead; she insists the baby was stolen from her.
In Hampshire, complications mount. Late at night, Lizzie hears furtive voices outside, there's a gentleman farmer whose demeanor with Lucy seems unusually familiar, and, while Lucy proves a bit moody, she hardly seems deranged. The girl's aunts are clearly withholding something. . . . These tensions come to a head when a man is found dead in the garden, stabbed with a knife from the aunts' home.
Lizzie calls upon her beau, Inspector Benjamin Ross. Together, they find themselves entangled in a mystery as bewildering as any they've faced.
Ann Granger
Ann Granger is a British author of cozy crime. Born in Portsmouth, England, she went on to study at the University of London. She has written over thirty murder mysteries, including the Mitchell & Markby Mysteries, the Fran Varady Mysteries, the Lizzie Martin Mysteries and the Campbell and Carter Mysteries. Her books are set in Britain, and feature female detectives, murderous twists and characters full of humor and color.
Read more from Ann Granger
Dead in the Water Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Rare Interest In Corpses Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rack, Ruin and Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Better Quality of Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rooted in Evil Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mud, Muck and Dead Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bricks and Mortality: A Campbell & Carter Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Particular Eye for Villainy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Matter of Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murderer's Apprentice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Unfinished Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Testimony of the Hanged Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Mortal Curiosity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Truth-Seeker's Wife Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dead Woman of Deptford Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to A Mortal Curiosity
Related ebooks
A Mortal Curiosity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Master of Silence A Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Embers of Time: Flames of Time, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Short Stories Of Charlotte Riddell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete, Annotated Murder on the Links Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaking The Weaver: The Timberhaven Chronicles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBoracic Lint Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hole in the Wall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMuse (Maeve McKenna Vampire Series, Book 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Eagle in the Snow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dying for Millions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDialogues of the Dead: A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf Anything Should Happen Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Georgina's Service Stars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHereditary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Three Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Year I Found Great Aunt Alice: Love-in-War, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Talent for Murder: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dark Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhite Cranes Dancing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Imaginary Lives of James Poneke Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Francis Bacon Mysteries Volume One: Fires of London, The Prisoner of the Riviera, and Moon Over Tangier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore the Ruins: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Escape From the Past: The Kid: Escape From the Past, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHope Became the Enemy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPearls Before Swine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Short Stories: Volume I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLady Rosamund and the Horned God: A Rosie and McBrae Regency Mystery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSnow White and the Civil War, Part 2: Plot of Gold Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth-Seeker's Wife: A gripping Victorian crime thriller full of suspense Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Historical Mystery For You
The Stranger in the Lifeboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Watchmaker's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Universal Harvester: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Sentence Is Death: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Herb of Death: A Miss Marple Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Find Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spider's Web Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lady of Ashes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Librarian of Crooked Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Word Is Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Line to Kill: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untitled Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anatomy of a Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Guardian of Lies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady in the Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl from Rawblood: A Gothic Horror Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pronghorns of the Third Reich Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sworn to Silence: A Kate Burkholder Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Under a Red Moon: A 1920s Bangalore Mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Courting Dragons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speaks the Nightbird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Mortal Curiosity
48 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ein tolles Buch und eine sagenhafte Sprecherin. Die Figuren sind gnz entzückend und werden durch die grandiose Leistung der Vorleserin zu ganz eigenem Leben erweckt. Herrlich.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am completely neutral about this book. I don't hate it, but I'm not absolutely sure that I like it, My problem is that I just couldn't care about the characters in the book, and as this is a murder mystery that is important. The setting did feel authentic though.