Agent: Pam Hopkins, Hopkins Literary Assoc.
A brooding castle, rain-lashed windows, hidden passages, and a séance all contribute to a delightfully creepy tale with twists that would make Daphne Du Maurier proud. Over several stormy days, Veronica and Stoker discover that everyone is concealing painful secrets and ulterior motives.
In order to finally discover what has become of Rosamund, Malcolm has gathered everyone who was present on the day she went missing: his estranged family, his long-time staff, and Tiberius, who harbored a secret passion for the mysterious Rosamund. Maddern’s Isle is owned by Tiberius’s oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly, whose bride, Rosamund, disappeared three years earlier, on their wedding day. Title: A Dangerous Collaboration Author: Deanna Raybourn Series: Veronica Speedwell, 4 Pages: 336 Publisher: Berkley Date: MaSummary: Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is whisked off to a remote island off the tip of Cornwall when her natural historian colleague Stoker's brother calls in a favor. Incidentally, Veronica hopes to sort out her disturbing feelings for Tiberius’s brother, Revelstoke “Stoker” Templeton-Vane-a plan that’s complicated when Stoker invites himself along. In March 1888, Veronica Speedwell agrees to accompany Tiberius, Viscount Templeton-Vane, to a windswept Cornish isle, the home of a rare butterfly, in Raybourn’s deliciously gothic fourth mystery featuring the adventurous lepidopterist (after 2018’s A Treacherous Curse).
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