At fourteen, Mary has finally become an independent woman. Taking up a secretive position, and no longer working as a maid, an old enemy returns. Suddenly her best friend, Archie Dibble, is arrested for murder and Mary’s life is threatened. To stay alive and save her friend from the hangman, Mary must confront her past....

An essential guide to poisons, firearms, knockouts, body disposal and other scientific matters for crime writers who want to get the science right....

An early Gilded Age story. Róisín Campbell was eighteen when she stepped off a boat in New York Harbor in the summer of 1870. She knew little of the world beyond what she’d seen in her small town in County Limerick, Ireland, and what she’d read in the novels she devoured when her chores were done. She knew no one in New York other than her cousin Jimmy Regan and Michael Henry, a dapper bachelor she met on board who would...