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A Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn
#8 Veronica Speedwell
Historical Mystery
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 3.12.24
Pages: 336
Rating: 4.5 stars
Format: eARC
Source: Net Galley
Sellers: Amazon
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GoodReads Synopsis:
Veronica and Stoker discover that
not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest
historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar
Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.
Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful
reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give
the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame
Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the
mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin
is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much
alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why?
Sleuthing out the answer to this question sets Veronica
and Stoker on their wildest adventure yet. From the underground laboratories of
scientists experimenting with electricity to resurrect the dead in the vein of
Frankenstein to the traveling show where Stoker once toured as an attraction,
the gaslit atmosphere of London in October is the perfect setting for this
investigation into the unknown. Through it all, the intrepid pair is always one
step behind the latest villain—a man who has killed once and will stop at
nothing to recover the body of the woman he loved. Will they unmask him in time
to save his next victim? Or will they become the latest figures to be
immortalized in his collection of horrors?
