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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Good history lesson told around a romantic mystery.
Greatly enjoyed this book. A lawyer and a fortune teller? What can they have in common? Have a fun ride with Annie and Nate and find out, the bloody lessons!
A very enjoyable series. Like the mystery and characters.
I enjoyed the story and the historical look of San Francisco. I doubt that I will read it again however.
A little weird.
Love history
And fiction
I found this book informative because I l like historical fiction and obviously the author researched the educational system of that period. I have not read previous books in that series so at times I was confused. The characters referred to places and / experiences that were not described in this book. I sort of figured it out or ignored it. I …
Enjoyable but slow. No action. Very little romance. Old fashioned everyday life.
I read as much as I could tolerate.
didnt grab me
O.M.G. This book took me 2 weeks to read. It was so boring that I kept.falling asleep. No description of characters features, too many characters, poor writing, and boring zzzzz
A little slow but a good book.
Too wordy
Good distraction
I really enjoy the dose of history alongside the mystery in this series.
I always like the San Francisco mysteries of the late 1800’s.
Loved it!
I’m from SF – couldn’t get through the first chapter. Tedious.
A good mystery from bygone era, I enjoyef the news paper snippets at the beginning of each chapter.
One of the worst and most amateurishly written books I’ve ever read. It was hard to finish, and I’m the sort of person who feels obligated to finish a book I’ve started. The characters are cardboard cut-outs, the “plot” ridiculous, the “mystery” transaparently obvious, and getting through it to the end was a real slog. The author’s main goal …