Category: Mystery/Suspense Publisher: St. Martin's
ISBN-10: 0312352468
Type: Fiction
Pages: 303
Copyright: February 2, 2007
ISBN-13: 9780312352462
The first novel in the Martha Beale historical mystery series.
Intrigue, passion and murder surround the suspicious disappearance of Philadelphia financier Lemuel Beale in the winter of 1842. Supposedly a victim of accidental drowning, he leaves a sinister legacy of political and financial scheming - and a trouble heiress, his daughter, Martha, his only child.
When Juliet, a young English woman, disappears from a Festival in Nerja, Spain, disgraced veteran detective Leon Prado of the Spanish National Police suspects an elusive serial abductor. A curious videographer, Amanda Salisbury, inadvertently films J
