Third book in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series.In Bloody Lessons, the third book in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco mystery series, it’s the winter of 1880, and the public school teachers of San Francisco are under attack: their salaries slashed and their competency and morals questioned in a series of poison pen letters. Annie Fuller, the … Fuller, the reluctant clairvoyant, has been called in to investigate by Nate Dawson, her lawyer beau, and the case becomes personal when they discover that Nate’s sister Laura may be one of the teachers being targeted.
In this historical mystery, readers will find the same blend of a cozy mystery and romantic suspense that they found in Locke’s Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits. However, if new to this series, they will still enjoy spending time with the lively residents of Annie Fuller’s O’Farrell Street boardinghouse and visiting San Francisco when Golden Gate Park was filled with horse-drawn carriages, politics were controlled by saloon-keepers, and kisses were stolen under gaslight.
Bloody Lessons is followed by Deadly Proof, and Pilfered Promises, and Locke’s shorter works, found in Victorian San Francisco Stories and Victorian San Francisco Novellas, feature minor characters from the series.
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Third book in the series. No let-down. Love the characters.
As a retired teacher from northern California, I found the history of school teachers in the late 1800s in San Francisco to be very interesting. Add some mystery and murder and you got me hooked. I did not care for the character of Laura very much.
I particularly enjoy the setting of Victorian San Francisco.
BLOODY LESSONS M. Louisa Locke
Laura Dawson, a new teacher at a girls’ high school in 1880s San Francisco, works hard to overcome troubling memories from her earlier assignment in a rural one-room school. She has the good fortune to live in close quarters with respectable and interesting people – in a boarding house owned by Annie Fuller, a …
Totally enjoyed this book and have read several others by the same author due to liking this one so much
Enjoyed reading this book.
Great who-done-it. With some twists. I thought I knew who the murder was , but was totally surprised. Reading another of her books Maids of Misfortune which is equally as good so far. Never was into mystery’s but these are good.
Nice historical setting. Good mystery and an enjoyable story. Would like more.
this entire series is first rate
I enjoy the entire series. Unconventinal and strong lead character.
Good details about teaching at the turn of the century. San Francisco’s info is interesting as well.
Good characters and an entertaining story.
Fast easy read great for airport and plane
Louisa Locke is a very good author. Her descriptions of San Francisco in the 1880s are interesting and informative. The character development is excellent and the story line is riveting. It is a little hard to believe the heroine as a feminist in that era, but Locke pulls it off – and there clearly were very independent women back then as …
Great characters and sense of place. While much misfortune falls upon the characters, their responses are true to self and that makes the story believable and engaging.
I am a native of San Francisco – I enjoy just about anything that takes place inSF!
I like that the author is a retired history professor and includes information about the lives of women in the late 19th century.
I enjoyed every book in the series and recommended them to friends. I look forward to reading more by the same author.
This is one of those feel good books. I have ended up reading the whole series and will miss the characters when I get to the end.
Great read. Good plot and story line. I love the continuing characters from the first book.