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Sister Beneath the Sheet
Sister Beneath the Sheet
Sister Beneath the Sheet
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It’s springtime in Biarritz, France – and playtime for Edwardian society. But the fashionable crowd is shaken by the suicide of a high-class prostitute, Topaz Brown, who has left her fortune to England’s suffragette movement. Suffragette Nell Bray is sent to Biarritz to protect the money and keep its embarrassing source private. She gets more than she bargained for, however, when she learns that Topaz’s death may not have been suicide at all. She’s also busy tracking one of her wilder suffragette sisters, who arrives unexpectedly in town with a gun in her bag and her sights set on an MP. As her investigation takes her through Biarritz’s tawdry slums and elegant boulevards, Nell may have taken on more than she can handle.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSevern House
Release dateApr 1, 2013
ISBN9781448300884
Sister Beneath the Sheet
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Gillian Linscott

Gillian Linscott worked as a journalist for the Guardian and the BBC before turning to full-time crime writing. Her novels featuring the suffragette detective Nell Bray have won her the CWA/Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 2000 and the Herodotus Award for Best International Historical Mystery Novel. Her books include The Perfect Daughter and Dead Man Riding.

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