A Fatal Freedom An Ursula Grandison Mystery 2

London 1903: American Ursula Grandison is once again involved with murder. As she struggles to make a living in a society where women have few rights and little freedom, she teams up with old friend and private investigator Thomas Jackman, who soon finds himself drawing on Ursula’s investigative abilities as they battle to save an innocent woman from the noose.Set against a background of Edwardian constraints and the fight for women’s suffrage, can Ursula and Jackman disentangle a bewildering web of motive and opportunity and prevent a subtle yet dangerous killer striking again?

Janet Laurence is the author of the Darina Lisle culinary crime novels, which include Death at the Table. She is the former chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and was included in the Times' "100 Masters of Crime" in 1998.