And the winner is.....
THE FLEET STREET MURDERS by Charles Finch.
3rd of 4 in series featuring Charles Lenox, a gentleman sleuth, in 1860s London. Here is a summary:
It’s Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend, Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have just met with violent deaths--one shot, one throttled. Lenox soon involves himself in the strange case, which proves only more complicated as he digs deeper. However, he must leave it behind to go north to Stirrington, where he is fulfilling a lifelong dream: running for a Parliamentary seat. Once there, he gets a further shock when Lady Jane sends him a letter whose contents might threaten their nuptials. In London, the police apprehend two unlikely and unrelated murder suspects. From the start, Lenox has his doubts; the crimes, he is sure, are tied, but how? Racing back and forth between London and Stirrington, Lenox must negotiate the complexities of crime and politics, not to mention his imperiled engagement. As the case mounts, Lenox learns that the person behind the murders might be closer to him--and his beloved--than he knows.
It was published in 2009 and has 320 pages.
Steve goes shooting tonight. I'm going to do some job searching online and hopefully work a bit on my newsletter. Time is getting away from me on that. I may play the first episode of season two of Damages while I work on the computer. And then read.
What I should do is go directly to bed because I've been so tired lately. But I would like to say I've accomplished at least a little something this evening. :) I'm currently drinking a mug of tea and surfing the Net. Ah lovely.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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