Wondering what you're reading Wednesday?
It's Wednesday and I'm wondering what you are reading? Share with us the title, the author, and what you like about the book. Are you reading the book via paperback, hardback, Kindle, Nook, or maybe an audiobook.
Here's the book blurb:
Under the plain gray skirts of Miss Beatrice Lockwood’s gown, a pistol waits at
the ready. For Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission—and with a
secret past—and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment.
Yet she is thrown oddly off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in
foiling a crime outside a fancy ball—and then disappears into the shadows,
leaving only his card. His name is Joshua Gage, and he claims to know Beatrice’s
employers. Beyond that, he is an enigma with a hypnotically calm voice and an
ebony-and-steel cane. . .
Joshua, who carries out clandestine investigations for the Crown, is equally
intrigued. He has a personal interest in Miss Lockwood, a suspected thief and
murderer, not to mention a fraudster who claims to have psychical powers. The
quest to discover her whereabouts has pulled him away from his mournful impulses
to hurl himself into the sea—and engaged his curiosity about the real Beatrice
Lockwood, whose spirit, he suspects, is not as delicate as her face and
figure.
He does know one thing, though: This flame-haired beauty was present the night
Roland Fleming died at the Academy of the Occult. Guilty or not, she is his
guide to a trail of blood and blackmail, mesmerism and madness—a path that will
lead both of them into the clutches of a killer who calls himself the Bone Man.
. . .
Here's the book blurb:
Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport’s going to be lucky to get out of this one alive.
Very early one morning, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, “Hey, I think he’s breathing,” and another voice says, “Yeah? Give me the bat.” And that’s the last thing he knows.
Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man’s disappearance, then—very troublingly—to the Minneapolis police department, then—most troublingly of all—to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, and the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen.
No matter who gets in the way.
1 comments:
I am reading "V is for Vengeance" by Sue Grafton. I just finished "Crescent Dawn" by Clive Cussler.
By the way, your "click to open" doesn't work.
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Dad
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