Season of Darkness
by Cora Harrison
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Pub Date 1 Jul 2019 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2019
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Description
When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognize the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins would determine to find out who killed her.
Who was Isabella blackmailing, and why? Led on by fragments of a journal discovered by Isabella’s friend Sesina, the two men track the murdered girl’s journeys from Greenwich to Snow Hill, from Smithfield Market to St Bartholomews, and put their wits to work on uncovering her past.
But what does Sesina know that she’s choosing not to tell them? And is she doomed to follow in the footsteps of the unfortunate Isabella …?
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780727888761 |
| PRICE | US$34.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 240 |
Featured Reviews
Amy O, Librarian
Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens team up to solve a mystery in Cora Harrison's "Season of Darkness: A Gaslight Mystery." And it works.
The mystery is a good one: Isabella refuses to tell Sesina, both dropouts from Dickens' home for wayward girls, whom she is going to collect blackmail money from. When Isabella's body washes up in the Thames, Dickens recognizes her and asks Collins to help him find her murderer.
The choice of characters may send the reader to the nearest search engine. Dickens and Collins were good friends, you discover. Dickens was a rock star in London and Collins went on to write "The Moonstone," often called the first detective novel. Urania Cottage was a charitable project conceived by Dickens, and Isabella and Sesina were real dropouts.
Cora Harrison is author of the Burren novels, starring a woman judge in 16th Century Ireland, and the Reverend Mother mysteries, in which a Catholic religious solves mysteries in early 20th Century Cork with a Jewish doctor and a former student.
Count on Harrison to come up with one novel idea after another. Count on this new Gaslight series to be another winner.
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