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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Not bad, but kind of slow going.
Well written, good plot, and interesting characters
Predictable. Generic mystery.
The historical details concerning San Francisco made this a fun read!
Light entertainment.
This author can be trusted to produce a first quality book of suspense with no overt sexual content. Very enjoyable.
This is the second of these I have read and I continue to enjoy them. Good mystery and a feminist lens on that era in San Francisco
I read a lot of grit, murder, mayhem, and mosters, so it is always refreshing to read a book that looks at life through the rose colored glasses of gentility. Very often, this can only be accomplished by reading books published in the nineteen thirties and forties. Even during that period, hard boiled noir seems really tame by today’s standards. …
This was an interesting concept.
Very engaging series. Good period piece.
This is another book 1 that I’m tempted to buy books 2&3. I loved reading about early San Francisco, having been there many times.