I can't seem to get enough of the Anna Kronberg aka Elizabeth Arlington novels. She's complex, intelligent, alluring, and a femme fatale all wrapped up in one, coupled with sensitivity and an alarming adaptability to inevitable danger!
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a must-read for mystery enthusiasts seeking a compelling story with unforgettable characters and a richly detailed setting.
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masterfully crafted mystery that keeps pulses racing until the very end
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Boston, 1893. Dr Elizabeth Arlington has buried her past deeper than the bodies she examines.
Once, she fooled Harvard Medical School, solved murders that baffled Scotland Yard, and survived a husband who wanted her dead. Now she treats patients in Boston's slums while dodging a vengeful assassin's shadow.
When a woman's mangled corpse is found on the railroad tracks, Elizabeth falls into old habits and examines the body. She realises this is no accident. It's a message.
As bodies pile up along Boston's railways, Elizabeth discovers she's not hunting a stranger. Someone from her carefully erased past has found her. Someone who knows exactly who she used to be. And what she did to survive.
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Caleb Carr meets Sarah Waters in this gothic thriller. Perfect for readers who love
The Arlington & McCurley Mysteries are a continuation of the award-winning Kronberg & Holmes series.
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A mute boy. A murdered journalist. A conspiracy written on counterfeit bills.
When Inspector McCurley finds a deaf boy huddled against a corpse, he expects a simple murder case. But the dead man was investigating something that powerful people need buried.
And the boy saw everything.
McCurley turns to Dr Elizabeth Arlington — the one person who might reach the traumatised child. As she coaxes words from the boy's trembling hands, each hard-won revelation draws them deeper into a conspiracy that someone will kill to protect.
The boy knows faces. He knows names. He knows where the bodies are buried.
In a city where money talks and the poor disappear, Arthur's memories are currency someone's willing to kill for.
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This Victorian noir thriller is perfect for readers who love the gritty realism of The Alienist, seek darker alternatives to Sherlock Holmes, and want their heroines unapologetically dangerous.
The Arlington & McCurley Mysteries are a continuation of the award-winning Kronberg & Holmes series.
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When a counterfeit conspiracy reaches Boston's shores, Dr Elizabeth Arlington must weaponise her medical knowledge to protect what's hers.
As an inspector at the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Quinn McCurley is expected to uphold law and order. But beneath his respectable veneer hide deception, bloodshed, and dangerous alliances.
When a New York crime syndicate brings their operation to Boston, the old blood on Quinn's hands becomes their leverage. With corrupt officers at every level and the Secret Service playing their own game, Elizabeth and Quinn must use every tool at their disposal, no matter how illegal.
Because when the law itself is corrupt, justice requires a different kind of violence.
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This dark psychological thriller is for readers who want their Victorian fiction with the brutal honesty of Peaky Blinders and the moral complexity of The Wire.
The Arlington & McCurley Mysteries are a continuation of the award-winning Kronberg & Holmes series.
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