An Edwardian murder mystery set in London with a clever and determined female sleuth London 1903: American Ursula Grandison is once again involved with murder. As she struggles to make a living in a society where women have few rights and little freedom, she teams up with old friend and private investigator Thomas Jackman, who soon finds himself drawing on Ursula's investigative abilities as they battle to save an innocent woman from the noose. Set against a background of Edwardian constraints and the fight for women's suffrage, can Ursula and Jackman disentangle a bewildering web of motive and opportunity and prevent a subtle yet dangerous killer striking again? AUTHOR: JANET LAURENCE is the author of the Darina Lisle culinary crime novels (Macmillan) and was a weekly cookery columnist for the Daily Telegraph between 1984 and 1986. Janet was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association between 1998 and 1999, included in The Times' '100 Masters of Crime' in 1998, and the Writer in Residence and Visiting Fellow at Jane Franklin College at the University of Tasmania in 2002. SELLING POINTS: ? The second book in the thrilling Ursula Grandison mysteries, following Deadly Inheritance ? A murder mystery set against the backdrop pf the women's suffrage movement in London in 1903 ? 'When it comes to mystery with history, Janet Laurence is up there with the best', Peter Lovesey, author of the best-selling Peter Diamond series ? Author is a former Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
