Kate Griffin

Broschiertes Buch

Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders

Beschreibung

Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises a singular scheme to discover the truth.

Autor

Kate Griffin's first book Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders won the Faber/Stylist crime competition and was shortlisted for a CWA dagger. This is her third novel featuring Kitty Peck. Kate works for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and lives just outside London., Kate Griffin was born within the sound of Bow bells, making her a true-born cockney. She has worked as an assistant to an antiques dealer, a journalist for local newspapers and most recently for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, Kate's first book, won the Stylist / Faber crime writing competition. Kate's maternal family lived in Victorian Limehouse. One of the inspirations for the series came from tales of life round the London docks told by her grandmother. Kate lives in St Albans.

Produktdetails

• Kitty Peck 1
• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 123mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780571302697
• ISBN-10: 0571302696
• Artikelnr.: 37556706

Rezensionen

Terrific debut novel ... Victorian London has never been better illustrated ... if this standard keeps up, we have a major new talent on our hands. Virginia Blackburn Sunday Express