It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns to pay off a debt.
Annie Fuller also has a secret. She supplements her income by giving domestic and business advice as Madam Sibyl, one of San … of San Francisco’s most exclusive clairvoyants, and one of Madam Sibyl’s clients, Matthew Voss, has died. The police believe his death was suicide brought upon by bankruptcy, but Annie believes Voss has been murdered and that his assets have been stolen.
Nate Dawson has a problem. As the Voss family lawyer, he would love to believe that Matthew Voss didn’t leave his grieving family destitute. But that would mean working with Annie Fuller, a woman who alternatively attracts and infuriates him as she shatters every notion he ever had of proper ladylike behavior.
Sparks fly as Anne and Nate pursue the truth about the murder of Matthew Voss in this light-hearted, cozy historical mystery set in the foggy gas-lit world of Victorian San Francisco.
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While I liked the story, I wish the author had used the word “rather” about ten percent of the time she actually did. I found the repetition of that word to be distracting.
Love her series!
Loved a female lead, especially set in this time period.
Historical fiction of the feel good kind with some mystery solving for fun!
Very enjoyable read with just enough historical detail to place the reader in the setting. The author creates interesting, believable characters who seem “modern” without stretching reader credulity.
Love the San Francisco references, characters, time period, intrigue!
Enjoyed reading this and all of these books. Liked the historical setting.
It’s a nice, easy read. I’ll probably read the series. It’s a good escape and I thoroughly enjoy Annie as a strong, independent woman constantly butting heads with what’s expected of her in polite Victorian society.
I just can’t get enough of this series. Annie and her group of supportive women are the best. The mysteries are great and the process of getting to the answers are great. Please keep writing!
Good storyline. Story kept moving along. Good characters and plot.
The writer developed good characters with enough references to past events to make the reader want to know more about them. However, it was not necessary to transcribe every thought in the protagonist’s head throughout the book. I was often bogged down by pages of thoughts and descriptions, eventually skipping pages to get the story to move; the …
Quick read. Enjoyable.
I thoroughly enjoyed Annie Fuller and her alter-ego. She is strong, determined and kind. How can one not root for success for a woman of her era with her characteristics?
This was a comfortable to read book with some good detective work well thought out. The characters were strong, believable, and genuine. It ended as it should, but not the way expected!
Predictable. Moved alittle slow. But it was okay
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Very engaging teasing the imagination with snippets of daily life and vocabulary used during Victorian times. A subtle undercurrent of bantering between two main characters, suggestive in a very proper way, of developing feelings-always entertaining.
I love a murder mystery, who-done-it or thriller but it’s a bonus when I can learn something historical at the same time and this author always delivers in that area. The main characters aren’t perfect but definitely do their best to live life with the best intentions and sweep you up into their story. I’ve read a few books in this series now, …
first in the series. A fun series for feminists, historians and mystery lovers.
The premise is decent. I’ve read a fair number of historical mysteries and this isn’t the worst i’ve ever read, but it certainly isn’t the best. It struggles although it isn’t easy for me to put an exact finger on why it struggles. It might be the characters come off flat. It might be that the heroine is just not quite that believable? …