Lies That Comfort and Betray

Heiress Prudence MacKenzie is a valuable partner to attorney Geoffrey Hunter, despite the fact that women are not admitted to the bar in New York's Gilded Age. The shocking murders in Whitechapel are making news worldwide, and Geoffrey and Prudence find the stories in the New York Herald quite unsettling. Then Nora Kenny, who occasionally works in Prudence's Fifth Avenue house just as her mother did for Prudence's mother, goes missing. And when Nora's body is discovered in a local park, the...