First Place Winner of the 2018 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Historical Mystery Award and fourth book in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series.It’s the summer of 1880, and once again the lovely and inquisitive businesswoman, Annie Fuller, is helping San Francisco lawyer and fiancé, Nate Dawson, with a troublesome case. Nate’s client, a female typesetter accused of … accused of murdering her boss, refuses to help in her own defense. Complicating matters, Nate’s sister Laura insists on getting involved in the potentially dangerous investigation, while Laura’s friend Seth Timmons, troubled Civil War veteran, finds himself a witness for the prosecution.
Will Nate be able to win his first big case? Will Laura and Seth find some way of remaining friends? And finally, will Annie and Nate’s upcoming nuptials be derailed by their attempts to track down a killer?
Old friends and new readers alike will enjoy Deadly Proof, this fourth installment of the cozy, historical mystery series that blends light-hearted romance and suspense, while examining the lives of late 19th century women who worked in the printing trades. Deadly Proof is followed by 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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I’m a huge fan of historical fiction. Grew up near San Francisco. These characters are very real, not outlandish, easy to relate to. The period detail is very well done. A good read. I want to know what happens next in the lives of the characters.
This author has a great way with plot lines. I had to read straight through and did not want to put the book down.
Easy read and hard to put down.
I have read others in the series. Woman’s role in society in that period was enlightening. Thoroughly enjoyed all the characters so artfully portrayed.
Light reading. Good escape into a book.
I have read the whole series of these wonderful little books. I love the whole story line that grows with each book. Read them in order to get the full enjoyment of them. Great characters!
Read this book by accident , but really enjoyed it. I learned a lot about a trade while I was enjoying a mystery and some history. I will look for more of this writer’s books.
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Learned about early newspaper business.
This series is entertaining and wonderful to read. I enjoy each new novel more than the last.
Entertaining
Nice cozy mystery. Slow read
Very slow. Couldn’t get into the story
It needs improved editing. Ending seems hurried to finish. A quick read.
Too slow. Stopped reading about 150 pages (on iPhone) in because I list interest.
Boring
The author has gone out of her way to create a book that would put the worse insomniac into a long period of sleep … boring, non-developing plot, no character development just to name a few ‘disqualities.’ In a race with a snail … the snail would win going away against the developing plot. My reader put this book at 300 pages … I was bored out of my wits after 75 pages, but for some unknown reason, I kept on reading thinking this has got to be going somewhere …. I was so wrong. After 150 pages, if this had been a print edition, it would have been in the fireplace. I didn’t think any author could write anything this boring and try to sell it. She certainly has a lot more nerve publishing this and trying to sell it. I got it as a free publication …. and I felt I was cheated. Sorry … some authors have it … some don’t. I gave it a ‘one star’ only because you can’ go any lower … in reality, this attempt by author should be rated a ‘minus anything.”
Too much ”womanly” blather about clothing. Maybe great for the ladies who are interested in women,s clothing. Reasonably good story line.
Excellent characters and one must assume accurate historical detail. Most enjoyable look forward to the next one.
Did not like it.
The author bombarded the reader in the first few chapters with so many characters, places and details, it made the story line nearly impossible to follow. I quit early in the game and chose another book.