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Title Statement | The ladies road guide to utter ruin / Alison Goodman. |
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Series | Ill-Mannered Ladies novel ;2 |
Author | Goodman, Alison |
Publication | New York: Berkley Prime Crime,2025. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 450 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780593440834 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07839868 |
General Notes | Includes readers guide. |
Summary | "In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as "old maids" to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. To most of Regency high society, forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta Colebrook, or Gus, and her twin sister, Julia, are just unmarried ladies of a certain age-hardly worth a second glance. But the Colebrook twins are far from useless old maids. They are secretly protecting women and children ignored by society and the law. When Lord Evan-a charming escaped convict who has won Gus's heart-needs to hide his sister and her lover from their vindictive brother, Gus and Julia take the two women into their home. They know what it is like to have a powerful and overbearing brother. But Lord Evan's complicated past puts them all in danger. Gus knows they must clear his name of murder if he is to survive the thieftakers who hunt him. But it is no easy task-the fatal duel was twenty years ago and a key witness is nowhere to be found. In a deadly cat-and-mouse game, Gus, Julia, and Lord Evan must dodge their pursuers and investigate Lord Evan's past. They will be thrust into the ugly underworld of Georgian gentlemen's clubs, spies, and ruthless bounty hunters, not to mention the everyday threat of narrow-minded brothers. Will the truth be found in time, or will the dangerous secrets from the past destroy family bonds and rip new love and lives apart?"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Aristocracy (Social class)--Fiction |
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Fiction | |
Escaped prisoners--Fiction | |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
Single women--Fiction | |
Sisters--Fiction | |
Twins--Fiction | |
By Location | Great Britain--Fiction--History--Regency, 1811-1820 |
By Genre | Detective and mystery fiction |
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