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Overview

Secrets prove deadly in this new novel from Tasha Alexander featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves. Some very prominent people in London are waking up to find their doorsteps smeared with red paint, the precursor to the revelation of a dark secret – and worse – by someone who enjoys destroying lives

Newly returned to her home in Mayfair, Lady Emily Hargreaves is looking forward to enjoying the delights of the season. The delights, that is, as defined by her own eccentricities—reading The Aeneid, waltzing with her dashing husband, and joining the Women’s Liberal Federation in the early stages of its campaign to win the vote for women. But an audacious vandal disturbs the peace in the capital city, splashing red paint on the neat edifices of the homes of London’s elite. This mark, impossible to hide, presages the revelation of scandalous secrets, driving the hapless victims into disgrace, despair and even death. Soon, all of London high society is living in fear of learning who will be the next target, and Lady Emily and her husband, Colin, favorite agent of the crown, must uncover the identity and reveal the motives of the twisted mind behind it all before another innocent life is lost.

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At the start of Alexander’s enchanting sixth late Victorian novel of suspense (after 2010’s Dangerous to Know), news of a fire in Southwark prompts British intelligence agent Colin Hargreaves to leave Lady Londonderry’s ball, to his wife Emily’s dismay. Colin returns home to Mayfair that night to announce that Michael Dillman, who ran a successful export business, has been cruelly burned alive in his warehouse by an unknown perpetrator. The week before, according to Michael’s fiancée, someone threw red paint on his front door. The Sanders family receives similar treatment shortly before the rumor breaks that daughter Polly’s mother was, in fact, a maid impregnated by her father. Subsequently, other respectable London families find red paint splashed on their houses, presaging some scandalous revelation in each case. Can Emily help Colin solve the crimes without risking her reputation—or becoming a target herself? Alexander keeps readers guessing to the very end. (Nov.)
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In early summer 1893, someone is splashing red paint on the doorsteps of prominent London citizens, a warning that their most scandalous secrets are about to be exposed. One of the first targets is Mr. Dillman, an industrialist promoting social justice. When he is killed in a warehouse fire, Colin Hargreaves, an agent of the Crown, is requested to investigate. Colin and his wife, Lady Emily, begin their work as a team to find the connection among the paint, the secrets, and the murder. After a detour to Normandy in Dangerous To Know, Alexander returns to the familiar setting of London society; this time she has a more solid foundation on which to build her characters and crime. Emily remains strong willed and focused in her desire to find the culprit before Colin, but their sincere affection and happy marriage act as pleasant counterweights to Emily's competitive nature. VERDICT The mystery and the solution are clever, with the addition of commentary on the dark side of a class-driven society for extra oomph. Fans will be excited to spend more quality time with such appealing and intelligent characters. [See Prepub Alert, 4/21/11.]—Stacey Hayman, Rocky River P.L., OH
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In Alexander's sixth Lady Emily mystery, our port-tippling heroine tracks a villain who's threatening London's best families with scandal—and worse. Lady Emily, now married to dashing Colin Hargreaves (who occasionally acts as an undercover agent in service to Queen Victoria), is still courting social opprobrium with her slightly outré predilections, such as consuming unladylike after-dinner drinks, studying Latin and Greek and advocating women's suffrage. However, soon more pressing challenges loom: Someone is defacing the facades of fashionable London townhouses with red paint, only, shortly thereafter, to disclose the deepest, darkest secrets of their occupants. Emily's best friend Ivy, fearing exposure of some unnamed wrongdoing, confides only in her diary. Tied in, somehow, with the paint-spattering, fatalities mount. A prosperous businessman, Mr. Dillman, is found burnt to death in the warehouse he owns, and shortly thereafter his fiancée, Cordelia, is kidnapped and murdered. The miscreants taunt Scotland Yard with their misdeeds and with missives sealed with distinctive yellow wax. Colin, who has accepted Emily's assistance with his investigations in the past, won't tell her everything he knows of the ongoing manhunt, thus prompting her to embark on her own sleuthing in the company of Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, a recurring character who provides welcome comic relief from all the polite posturing and faux-Victorian parlance. Jeremy, a self-described rakish cad, is actually upset that the red paint vandals find him unworthy of smearing. When Lady Glover, a flamboyant former music-hall star never really accepted by Society, is kidnapped, the domestic tranquility of several highborn husbands hangs in the balance. Suspects proliferate at a dizzying rate, among them a politician who backs votes for women, his West Indian best friend, a shrewish London hostess who knows where all the bodies are buried and, well, half of the West End. Although, we can be assured, all will end with port and cigars in Emily's library, this installment is encumbered by an impossibly convoluted plot and a lorry-load of scarlet herrings.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312661755
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 10/25/2011
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 48,586
  • Series: Lady Emily Series , #6
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Tasha Alexander
Tasha Alexander

Tasha Alexander is the author of the Lady Emily novels, a series of historical suspense, including Tears of Pearl and Dangerous to Know. She attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. She and her husband, novelist Andrew Grant, divide their time between Chicago and the UK. Please visit her website at www.tashaalexander.com.

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  • Posted October 26, 2011

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    Wonderful historical mystery!

    This was given to me for free by the publisher. I had never read any other of her novels, though I am a big fan of historical mysteries. This is #6 in a series, but it is completely stand alone. The characters are extremely well-written and the storyline is complex and interesting. The description of Victorian England and the socio-political goings add wonderful layers to the story. But the best part is the chemistry between the two main characters. I loved this story and it kept me riveted till the very end. Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys historical fiction or a good mystery.

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  • Posted March 28, 2012

    I have always been a fan of historical romances and mysteries. T

    I have always been a fan of historical romances and mysteries. The Lady Emily series provides both. I enjoyed this latest installment so much that I could hardly wait to get to it each evening of the four days it took me to finish. I am already looking forward to the next one!

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  • Posted February 4, 2012

    Highly Recommended

    If you are looking for an amazing mystery mixed with a little romance, this is the book for you. The author's ability to create a perfect image with her descriptions of people, places, and events help you feel as if you were there. This book can captivate any reader. The attention the author makes to details, will reel you in and you won't want to put the book down.

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    Posted January 22, 2012

    Love this series!

    I am so glad I found this series...another great author to add to my list. Characters are very enjoyable and story line never boring.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 12, 2011

    Lady Emily will face a diabolical killer.

    I'm a big fan of the Lady Emily and this book was one of the best. Emily and Colin are trying to solve the horrific murder of a man who seemed to have no enemies in the world. Now the steps of the leaders of society are being painted red. A few days later, secrets are exposed. As the members of the ton wonder about who will be exposed next, the bodies continue to pile up.

    Engrossing with just a touch of levity to lighten the mood now and again.

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