City of Secrets City of Secrets

Publisher Description

An exciting new book in the series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles--from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries.

Elizabeth Miles knows that honesty is not always the best policy when it comes to finding justice.
 
Elizabeth has discovered that navigating the rules of high society is the biggest con of all. She knows she can play the game, but so far, her only success is Priscilla Knight, a dedicated young suffragist recently widowed for the second time. Her beloved first husband died in a tragic accident and left her with two young daughters—and a sizable fortune. While she was lost in grief, Priscilla’s pastor convinced her she needed a man to look after her and engineered a whirlwind courtship and hasty marriage to fellow parishioner Endicott Knight. Now, about nine months later, Endicott is dead in what appears to be another terrible accident. 
 
Everyone is whispering, but that is the least of Priscilla’s troubles. She had believed Endicott was wealthy, too, but her banker tells her she has no money left and her house has been mortgaged. He also hints at a terrible scandal and refuses to help. 
 
Priscilla stands to lose everything, and Elizabeth is determined not to let that happen. But, as always, Elizabeth walks a fine line between using her unusual talents and revealing her own scandalous past. Elizabeth soon discovers that Endicott’s death was anything but accidental, and revealing the truth could threaten much more than Priscilla’s finances. To save her new friend’s future—and possibly her own—Elizabeth, along with her honest-to-a-fault beau, Gideon, delve into the sinister secrets someone would kill to keep.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
November 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Carol M Smith ,

Victoria Thompson’s City of Secrets

Grifting, blackmail, murder, robbing a mother
with two children, prostitution plus more make
for an exciting, well written, well plotted story.
The story is set in the 1920s. Elizabeth Miles
is a con artist who is in the process of reforming
her ways. She is trying to do this due to her
relationship with the uptight, upright lawyer.....
Gideon Bates. Elizabeth is also trying to learn
and live life according to society’s rules of
etiquette.
Elizabeth meets Priscilla Knight, a two time
widow with two young children. Helping Priscilla
by reviewing her husbands finances, Elizabeth
discovers a scam has happened to the widow.
This scam has left her penniless.
After discovering the scam, Elizabeth starts to
investigate. Seems blackmail and murder have
happened by how will Elizabeth help get money
back for the widow. It is necessary for a con artist
to outsmart the murderer and scam artist.
This is a fun, entertaining, interesting and
intriguing read filled with deadly secrets.
Although this is book # 2 of the Counterfeit Lady
Mystery series, it can be read as a stand alone.
The author mixed the past and present together
effortlessly so the characters are easy to get to
know.
I volunteered to read City of Secrets. Thanks to
Penguin’s First-to-Read fit the opportunity. My
opinion is my own.

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