Kate Ross, Author Penguin Books $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-023453-4
In 1820s London, an amateur sleuth seeks the assistance of a young prostitute who discovered a written plea for help in a client's pocket. (June)
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Kate Ross, Author Viking Books $24.95 (447p) ISBN 978-0-670-86359-4
In her fourth novel featuring the sharp-witted English dandy Julian Kestrel, Ross (Whom the Gods Love) adeptly fashions a mystery from lethal family secrets, political strife, passion for great music and an opulent early 19th-century setting. While...
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Kate Ross, Author Viking Books $19 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-84847-8
In its opening chapters, this mystery debut set in early 19th-century England reads like a promising Regency romance. Ruthless money-lender Mark Craddock has used ``dishonourable means'' to engineer the engagement of his daughter Maud to Sir Robert...
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Kate Ross, Author Viking Books $18.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-84999-4
In this atmospheric and gritty mystery set in 1820's London, dandy Julian Kestrel (first encountered in Cut to the Quick ) searches out the truth about a supposed suicide. Sally Stokes, a ``game girl,'' or prostitute--and the sister of Julian's...
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Kate Ross, Author Viking Books $20.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-86207-8
Julian Kestrel, introduced in Cut to the Quick, returns again to probe beneath the surface opulence of Regency London society. Until he was bludgeoned to death with a fireplace poker in his own study, charming Alexander Falkland fairly glittered in...
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