Consequences of Sin - Hardcover

Langley-Hawthorne, Clare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670038202 ISBN 13: 9780670038206

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2007

Synopsis

When her friend is falsely accused of murder, Oxford-educated Belgravian heiress and suffragette Ursula Marlow pursues answers that reveal her own late father's unsettling ties to the case, during which she seeks help from her father's trusted counselor, Lord Oliver Wrotham. A first novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Clare Langley-Hawthorne was raised in England and Australia. She was an attorney in Melbourne before moving to the United States, where she began her career as a writer. This is her first novel.

From Publishers Weekly:

Langley-Hawthorne's debut, billed as the first in a new Edwardian series, introduces an aspiring journalist and an Oxford-educated heiress, Ursula Marlow, who has a lot to learn about good detective work. Ursula's sheltered life begins to unravel after she receives a frantic late-night call from her friend Winifred Stanford-Jones, who's awakened to her lesbian lover's bloody corpse in her bed. Ursula summons Lord Oliver Wrotham, legal adviser to her industrialist father, but she bristles at the condescending, restrictive male power structure of Edwardian London and launches her own probe into the murder—with limited success. More deaths follow, including that of Ursula's father. Suspecting the crimes may be linked to a botanical expedition to South America, Ursula embarks for its jungles to confirm her theory. Whodunit fans may feel let down by the chance discovery of the culprit's identity, though romance readers should appreciate the conflict between the heroine's attraction to the dark, handsome Lord Wrotham and her sense of duty to marry the man her father intended for her. (Feb.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670038202
• ISBN 13: 9780670038206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256