Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn (2024, Hardcover)

Penguin Publishing Group

0593545958

9780593545959

19061246344

Grave Robbery

336 Pages

English

2024

Mystery & Detective / Historical, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Romance / Historical / Victorian

Fiction

Deanna Raybourn

A Veronica Speedwell Mystery Ser.

Hardcover

1 in

18.4 Oz

9.3 in

6.3 in

Trade

2023-028930

"The very definition of a gleeful romp...the historical mystery novels of Deanna Raybourn...sparkle with wit and vigor and feminist-forward thinking." -Sarah Weinman, The New York Times "...possibly the best in the series, with Raybourn's trademark banter, innuendo, and outstanding lead characters, along with a fascinating plot and supporting cast."- Library Journal (starred review) "A puzzling mystery bolstered by an exploration of bizarre Victorian mores." -Kirkus "Rich with references to the historical events of the period, which provides a strong and vibrant sense of the steampunk-esque setting, the book's prose is electric and engaging." - Historical Novel Society "A Grave Robbery is a fast, compelling, and extremely delightful mystery." - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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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 immortalised in his collection of horrors?

PS3618.A983G73 2024