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Caro Peacock
Latest Book: The Killing Site
Fool's GoldLiberty Lane and her new husband are moored at the Greek island of Cephalonia at the end of their honeymoon cruise. Liberty is an enthusiast for Byron and is attracted to the island because the poet spent some of the last months of his life there.The appearance of a beautiful blind young man who is believed locally to be Byron's illegitimate son is followed by an unexplained death. When a wealthy Englishman takes the boy to London in an attempt to prove his parentage and it causes a second death, Liberty is involved heart and mind in a maze of deceptions. Friends in High PlacesA bungled attempt at a coup in France by the nephew of the Emperor Napoleon has an unsettling effect on Liberty’s world. When an aristocratic friend begs for help in getting a member of the failed coup out from under her roof it seems a simple matter of escorting him to safety. But before she can do that, the man is found hanged from the attic of the friend’s Kensington mansion. Liberty’s attempts to discover who was responsible are hampered by an opera singer out for revenge, several varieties of spy and some of the Metropolitan Police themselves. The Path of the WickedLiberty Lane is persuaded to travel to the Cotswolds to take up the case of a man likely to hang for the murder of a young governess. He is a local rabble rouser and rick burner and the whole rural establishment is against him. Even Liberty is not convinced of his innocence, until she uncovers the story of a kitchen maid sentenced to transportation after the death of her illegitimate baby. Several reputations are at risk if the true story comes to light and Liberty has to contend with prejudice and violence, against the deadline of the approaching assizes. Keeping Bad Company
London,
1840. The unexpected appearance of Liberty's brother Tom at a
Foreign Office reception leads her into one of the most challenging
murder investigations of her career. But how can Liberty solve a murder that took place six months previously almost five thousand miles away? It's a conundrum that will test her skills to the limit. And events are about to take a sinister turn much closer to home ... BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Caro
Peacock writes historical crime novels. Her Liberty Lane series
features a young woman private investigator, operating in the
early years of Queen Victoria’s reign. The books have been
published in the United States, and translated into Russian, Chinese,
Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian and Portugese. 
A young woman's body is taken from the Thames next to a building site. A common enough happening in 1847. But she's not from the usual class of women who are found in the river and it's no ordinary building site. Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament is the biggest and most controversial construction in the world and Liberty Lane's latest investigation is tangled up in it, She'd handicapped by two things. At the start of the book she's been kidnapped and has no idea where in the world she is. And her husband has disappeared. Her two allies, Amos Legge, the smartest groom in London, and former street urchin Tabby, tangle with builders, gang leaders and aristocrats in their efforts to defuse an explosive threat to the re-opening of parliament.