Deanna Raybourn

Theodora deja atrás Edimburgo, y a un pretendiente desilusionado, con una pequeña herencia y sus tres únicos vestidos. Pone rumbo a Rumanía, un lugar donde aún se cuentan entre susurros historias de vampiros, para visitar a una vieja amiga y escribir el libro con el que va a lograr ser una mujer independiente de verdad. El castillo situado en los Cárpatos al que llega es un lugar imponente y deteriorado repleto de excéntricos habitantes: la achacosa condesa viuda, el pesaroso administrador, su temerosa amiga Cosmina... pero ninguno de ellos alcanza el oscuro encanto del conde Andrei Dragulescu, el amo del castillo. Andrei resulta desconcertante y cautivador a partes iguales, es un noble adusto que aviva la imaginación de Theodora y despierta en ella pasiones innegables e imposibles de ocultar. Es un hombre de un magnetismo superlativo que ejerce un dominio absoluto sobre el supersticioso pueblo, y ella podría convertirse en una más de las muchas personas que tiene a sus pies. Antes de finalizar su estancia allí y de terminar de escribir su novela, Theodora va a encontrar cosas extrañas y terribles a la par que seductoras. Obsesionarse con algo puede llegar a ser funesto, y ella corre el peligro de acabar siendo víctima de algo más que el deseo.

Cuando lady Julia Grey regresó a Inglaterra después de un largo viaje por Italia, encontró su casa natal, la abadía de Bellmont, abarrotada de familiares y amigos. Para su sorpresa, el único hombre a quien habia querido olvidar, el enigmatico y orgulloso Nicholas Brisbane, estaba entre los invitados de su padre y no estaba solo. Para no ser menos, Julia le presento inmediatamente a su enamorado; un joven y distinguido conde italiano. Sin embargo, las celebraciones de regreso a casa dieron un giro inesperado y cruel con el hallazgo de uno de los invitados muerto en la capilla, victima de un brutal asesinato. Lady Julia reanudo entonces su insolita, interesante y deliciosa colaboracion con Nicholas Brisbane, decidida a desenmarañar aquella red de engaños antes de que el asesino golpeara de nuevo.

Londres, 1887. Au Curiosity Club, établissement réservé aux femmes intrépides, laventurière Veronica Speedwell rencontre lady Sundridge, qui la supplie daccepter une tâche impossible : sauver de lexé

A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora Lestrange lives in terror of it all. With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburghand a disappointed suitorfar behind. She is bound for Rumania, where tales of vampires are still whispered, to visit an old friend and write the book that will bring her true independence. She arrives at a magnificent, decaying castle in the Carpathians, replete with eccentric inhabitants: the ailing dowager; the troubled steward; her own fearful friend, Cosmina. But all are outstripped in dark glamour by the castles master, Count Andrei Dragulescu. Bewildering and bewitching in equal measure, the brooding nobleman ignites Theodoras imagination and awakens passions in her that she can neither deny nor conceal. His allure is superlative, his dominion over the superstitious town, absoluteTheodora may simply be one more person under his sway. Before her sojourn is endedor her novel completedTheodora will have encountered things as strange and terrible as they are seductive. For obsession can prove fataland she is in danger of falling prey to more than desire.

Londres, 1887. Maintenant que sa vieille tante est enterrée, Veronica Speedwell est libre de reprendre ses voyages pour une noble cause : la recherche scientifique, et, occasionnellement, un peu de batifolage amoureux. Aussi habituee a chasser les papillons qua econduire ses admirateurs, Veronica a lintention de sembarquer dans laventure dune vie ! Mais le destin en decide autrement... Veronica doit bientot se liberer dune tentative denlevement, avec laide inattendue dun enigmatique baron allemand. Il la confie a lun de ses amis, un naturaliste reclus et irascible nomme Stoker. Lorsque le baron est assassine sans avoir pu reveler ce quil savait du complot contre elle, Veronica, poursuivie par un assaillant insaisissable, est contrainte de former une alliance avec Stoker pour decouvrir la verite. Un duo de choc, une toile de fond historique originale et une intrigue dont les mysteres se devoilent habilement, tel est le style inimitable de Deanna Raybourn. Cette nouvelle serie commence en fanfare ! Library Journal Un roman brillant ! La narration pleine desprit de lintrepide Veronica et la tension qui existe entre elle et lexcentrique Stoker rendent la lecture tres plaisante. Et ce nest que le debut ! Publishers Weekly Les excentricites de lAngleterre victorienne reçoivent un traitement passionnant dans ce roman extremement divertissant a la narration energique. South Florida Sun-Sentinel Un regal ! Deanna Raybourn fait partie de ces rares ecrivains capables de rendre lHistoire immediate et passionnante sans perdre en authenticite. Rhys Bowen, autrice de Son Espionne Royale mene lenquete Jadore ce livre ! La charismatique Veronica Speedwell triomphe de ladversite et du danger grace a son esprit vif, son charme et son extraordinaire determination. Une belle trouvaille ! Robyn Carr, autrice des Chroniques de Virgin River Veronica Speedwell fait assurement partie des incontournables du genre policier. Alan Bradley, auteur de Flavia de Luce Deanna Raybourn, conteuse hors pair a la voix unique, cree des personnages inoubliables dans un monde riche en details. Nora Roberts Une heroine intelligente qui a du cran et de lavance sur son temps. Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Amateur sleuth Lady Julia Grey and her detective husband, Nicholas Brisbane, face their latest adventure in this novella by New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn. Its the autumn of 1890, and almost a year has passed since much to their surprise Lady Julia and Nicholas became parents. Just as the couple begins to adapt, a solicitor arrives with a strange bequest. Nicholas, it seems, has inherited a country house but only if he and his family are in residence from All Hallows Eve through Bonfire Night. Neither Lady Julia nor Nicholas is likely to be put off by local legends of ghosts and witches, and the eerie noises and strange lights that flit from room to room simply intrigue them. Until a new ladys maid disappears, igniting a caper that will have explosive results The fourth in a series of Lady Julia Grey stories set during traditional English holidays, Bonfire Night follows Silent Night, Midsummer Night and Twelfth Night. Look for Deannas newest 1920s novel, Night of a Thousand Stars, in October!

Readers everywhere have fallen for New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourns intrepid amateur sleuth and socialite, Lady Julia Grey. Not to mention her devastating partner in crime, Nicholas Brisbane. Midsummer Night is the long awaited story of their wedding, a dashing and potentially deadly affair not to be missed Midsummer in Englandan auspicious time for a wedding. Brisbane has taken charge of the music. Julia has, perhaps mistakenly, allowed her sisters to choose the dress. And Belmont Abbey is overflowing with guests awaiting the blessed day. What could go wrong? Combine the close-knit chaos of village life, pagan traditions bursting through staid Victorian conventions, and the congenial madness that tends to swirl around Lady Julias family and you get an unforgettable wedding. But add in a dangerous past nemesis who has come to wish them not-so-well, and their day to remember just might take a fatal turn

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn returns with a brand-new novella, starring her beloved heroine, the intrepid Lady Julia Grey To mark the passing of another decade, the esteemedand eccentricMarch family have assembled at Bellmont Abbey to perform the Twelfth Night Revels for their sleepy English village. But before Lady Julia and her handsome, sleuthing husband, Nicolas Brisbane, can take to the stage, a ruckus in the stable yard demands their attention. An abandoned infant is found nestled in the steel helm of St. George. Whats more, their only lead is the local legend of a haunted cottage and its ghastly inhabitantwho seems to have returned. Once again, Lady Julia and Nicholas take up the challenge to investigate, and when the source of the mystery is revealed, theyll be faced with an impossible choiceone that will alter the course of their livesforever. Dont miss a single tale in the Lady Julia Grey seriesor Deanna Raybourns latest novel, City of Jasmine.

Tis the season for an investigation! Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane return for a Christmas caper at Bellmont Abbey. After a year of marriageand numerous adventuresLady Julia and Brisbane hope for a quiet, intimate Christmas togetheruntil they find themselves at her fathers ancestral estate, Bellmont Abbey, with her eccentric family and a menagerie of animals. Nevertheless, Julia looks forward to a lively family gatheringbut amongst the celebrations, a mystery stirs. There are missing jewels, new faces at the Abbey, and a prowling ghost that brings back unwelcome memories from a previous holidayone that turned deadly. Is a new culprit recreating crimes of the past? And will Brisbane let Julia investigate? Dont miss a single tale in the Lady Julia seriesread the book that started it all, Silent in the Grave, available now.

London, 1887. Veronica Speedwell intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans. When Veronica thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, he offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker - a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. When the Baron is murdered, Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth.

London, 1888. Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell cant resist the allure of an exotic mysteryparticularly one involving her enigmatic colleague, Stoker. His former expedition partner has vanished from an archaeological dig with a priceless diadem unearthed from the newly discovered tomb of an Egyptian princess, just the latest in a string of unfortunate events that have plagued the controversial expedition. In London, rumours abound that the curse of the vengeful princess has been unleashed as the shadowy figure of Anubis himself stalks the streets. Sordid details emerge from Stokers past, and caught in a tangle of conspiracies and threats, Veronica must separate facts from fantasy to unravel a web of duplicity that threatens to cost Stoker everything

Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an impossible tasksaving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution, who stands accused of the brutal murder of his mistress Artemisia. Together with her natural historian colleague Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderera ruthless villain who not only took Artemisias life in cold blood but is happy to see Ramsforth hang for the crime.

Para lady Julia Grey y Nicholas Brisbane, la luna de miel había terminado… pero la aventura acababa de comenzar.Ante los ruegos de la excéntrica familia de Julia, los dos se marcharon a la India para

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A princess is missing and a peace treaty is on the verge of collapse in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club--an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women--Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use. As she assembles a memorial exhibition for pioneering mountain climber Alice Baker-Greene, Veronica discovers evidence that the recent death was not a tragic climbing accident but murder. Veronica and her natural historian beau, Stoker, tell the patron of the exhibit, Princess Gisela of Alpenwald, of their findings. With Europe on the verge of war, Giselas chancellor, Count von Rechstein, does not want to make waves--and before Veronica and Stoker can figure out their next move, the princess disappears.Having noted Veronicas resemblance to the princess, von Rechstein begs her to pose as Gisela for the sake of the peace treaty that brought the princess to England. Veronica reluctantly agrees to the scheme. She and Stoker must work together to keep the treaty intact while navigating unwelcome advances, assassination attempts, and Veronicas own family--the royalty who has never claimed her.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!This Golden Girls meets James Bond thriller is a journey you want to be part of. -BuzzfeedOlder women often feel invisible, but sometimes thats their secret weapon.Theyve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that theyre sixty years old, four women friends cant just retire its kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize theyve been marked for death.Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. Theyre about to teach the Board what it really means to be a womanand a killerof a certain age.

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awardnominated author Deanna Raybourn.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 Tussauds. 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 villaina 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 immortalized in his collection of horrors?

The wickedly clever and devilishly amusing* Veronica Speedwell returns for a rousing adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries.London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible tasksaving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Ramsforth, accused of the brutal murder of his mistress, Artemisia, will face the hangmans noose in a weeks time if the real killer is not found.But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural-historian colleague, Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer. From a Bohemian artists colony to a royal palace to a subterranean grotto with a decadent history, the investigation proves to be a very perilous undertaking indeed...*SusanElia MacNeal