It is November of 1880, and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant, and as a couple, they are looking forward to spending their first Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays together.For Robert Livingston, the owner San Francisco’s newest grand emporium, the … emporium, the holidays are shaping up to be a dismal failure if he can’t figure out how to stop whoever is stealing from his department store, the Silver Strike Bazaar. When he hires the Dawsons to investigate, Annie and Nate discover that behind the doors of Livingston’s “Palace of Plenty,” nothing is quite what it seems.
Pilfered Promises, by USA Today bestselling author, M. Louisa Locke, is the fifth full-length historical mystery in the cozy Victorian San Francisco mystery series featuring Annie and Nate Dawson and their friends and family in the O’Farrell Street boarding house. 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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This is the 5th book of the series I’ve read. Enjoyed them all and looking forward to more.
Very enjoyable
The story takes you back to the 1880. But it seems crime has no time table . I want to read other books with Annie & Nate.
Fast little read
I loved the historical aspect and it was definitely one you did not want to put down. Kept me interested from start to finish. Love this author.
Enjoyed it very much.
I love this autor’s books. Always keeps my attention and I tend to read the book straight through to see what has happened and who did it. A great light read.
I live in the SF Bay Area, & love this series about 19th century SF. Fun indeed!
Enjoyed it. It moved along.
M. Louisa Locke’s Victorian San Francisco mystery series offers reader lots of intrigue and unexpected events in settings that explore the culture and social spectrum of her characters in meticulous detail. In Pilfered Promises readers get all that plus an intimate look at how the drama related to the Christmas season plays out in that same setting. although Locke includes enough details to keep even the most avid reader or period fiction engaged, she also explores basic themes of human behavior that surely began when humans did.
It was interesting, held my interest the whole time. There were a lot of things I liked reading it, nothing better than the other, it was the whole package.
Nice change of pace tread. Victorian setting with historical details was delightful.
Well written, full of historical detail and well rounded characters.
I didn’t think I would enjoy these books but they engage your mind and the characters are all very well thought out. Overall another fantastic book in this series.
A fun read.
As usual this author never disappoints
I’ve read all the books in this series. This one wasn’t up to the level of the ones before. There are lots of typos, that are really irritating and the story just isn’t as interesting as the rest of the series has been.
Not a bad story, but I was expecting better.
I enjoy all of Victorian San Francisco Mysteries. I’m a history buff. I went to college in S. F. And she makes the 1880’s come to life for me.