Daughters Of Night

From the seedy underbelly of Covent Garden to the highest circles of Westminster, Laura Shepherd-Robinson's Daughters of Night follows lady Caroline Corsham as she seeks to avenge the death of a woman who society would rather forget . . .

The lady's fingers found her own. She gazed at Caro as if from a distance. Her lips parted, her words a whisper: 'He knows.'

London, 1782. Desperate for her husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of despair when she discovers a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Her final words, a whisper into Caro's ear: He knows.

The Bow Street constables are quick to act, until they discover the deceased lady was in fact a woman of the night, at which point their inquiries stall. But Caro is determined that this woman's murder should be taken as seriously as any lady's, and so sets out to solve the case herself.

But with many gentlemen refusing to speak about their dealings with the deceased, and Caro's precarious reputation needing to be protected, the path to find the killer will be difficult, and more dangerous than she can know . . .