The River Knows - Hardcover

Quick, Amanda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399154175 ISBN 13: 9780399154171

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007

Synopsis

Inadvertently teaming up with a fellow interloper who suspects a prominent society figure of hiding dangerous secrets, bespectacled Louisa Bryce of late-Victorian London investigates her beliefs about the man's connection to a notorious brothel and learns that her partner's fiancée drowned in the Thames under suspicious circumstances. 200,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Quick is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author-under various pen names-of more than forty New York Times bestsellers. There are more than 25 million copies of her books in print.

From AudioFile:

In this romantic thriller, a litter of suspicious suicides and murders is wrapped around an unlikely love affair in Victorian England. Louisa Bryce, a wallflower who is also a scandal-sheet writer in secret, is investigating blue blood Alwin Hastings, suspected of owning a notorious brothel. Handsome, rich Anthony Stalbridge is also probing Hastingss well-disguised private life. He believes Hastings was responsible for the suicide of his fiance. Katherine Kellgren builds Louisas character slowly but with intrigue as she falls in love with Stalbridge. Kellgren artfully portrays the hero with masculine intensity, and oozes evil as Hastings and the homicidal brothel madam, Victoria. The predictable climax--Hastingss downfall and Louisa and Stalbridges declarations of love--takes too long in coming, but Kellgren keeps the excitement red-hot until the end. M.T.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0399154175
• ISBN 13: 9780399154171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368