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Clockwork Nightingale
In a city of light and reason, a killer's weapon is a work of art. Her mind is the only thing that can stop it.
Paris, 1750. Céleste Vaudry is a ghost. By day, she is a reclusive automaton-maker, hiding her genius from the guilds that destroyed her family. By night, she creates breathtaking clockwork wonders for a secret clientele, her only solace found in the predictable logic of gears and springs.
Bastien de la Roche is a man haunted by his past. A former musketeer turned private investigator, he trusts only cold, hard evidence. When a series of impossible murders terrifies the aristocracy—each victim found in a locked room, the only clue a single, mechanical feather—Bastien’s investigation leads him to Céleste’s shuttered workshop.
He is convinced she is either the killer or the key. Forced into a reluctant alliance, Céleste must use her unparalleled knowledge of mechanics to unravel the secrets of a weapon that defies logic, while Bastien must navigate a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the French court.
As they are drawn deeper into a world of gilded secrets and vengeful artisans, their fiery intellectual rivalry ignites into a dangerous attraction. But in a city where lies are currency and trust is a fatal mistake, they must learn to have faith in each other. With a killer’s masterpiece set to perform at a royal masquerade, Céleste and Bastien have one chance to stop a symphony of death, or become the final notes in the clockwork nightingale’s song.
Paris, 1750. Céleste Vaudry is a ghost. By day, she is a reclusive automaton-maker, hiding her genius from the guilds that destroyed her family. By night, she creates breathtaking clockwork wonders for a secret clientele, her only solace found in the predictable logic of gears and springs.
Bastien de la Roche is a man haunted by his past. A former musketeer turned private investigator, he trusts only cold, hard evidence. When a series of impossible murders terrifies the aristocracy—each victim found in a locked room, the only clue a single, mechanical feather—Bastien’s investigation leads him to Céleste’s shuttered workshop.
He is convinced she is either the killer or the key. Forced into a reluctant alliance, Céleste must use her unparalleled knowledge of mechanics to unravel the secrets of a weapon that defies logic, while Bastien must navigate a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the French court.
As they are drawn deeper into a world of gilded secrets and vengeful artisans, their fiery intellectual rivalry ignites into a dangerous attraction. But in a city where lies are currency and trust is a fatal mistake, they must learn to have faith in each other. With a killer’s masterpiece set to perform at a royal masquerade, Céleste and Bastien have one chance to stop a symphony of death, or become the final notes in the clockwork nightingale’s song.
37 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 21, 2025
About the author
Lucy Quinn
35 books89 followersLucy Quinn is the brainchild of New York Times bestselling author Deanna Chase and USA Today bestselling author Violet Vaughn. Having met over a decade ago in a lampwork bead forum, the pair were first what they like to call “show wives” as they traveled the country together, selling their handmade glass beads. So when they both started writing fiction, it seemed only natural for the two friends to pair up with their hilarious, laugh-out-loud, cozy mysteries. At least they think so. Now they travel the country, meeting up in various cities to plan each new Lucy Quinn book while giggling madly at themselves and the ridiculous situations they force on their characters. They very much hope you enjoy them as much as they do.
Deanna Chase, is a native Californian, transplanted to the slower paced lifestyle of southeastern Louisiana. When she isn’t writing, she is often goofing off with her husband in New Orleans, playing with her two shih tzu dogs, or making glass beads.
Violet Vaughn lives in coastal New Hampshire where she spends most mornings in the woods with her dogs, summer at the ocean, and winters skiing in the mountains of Maine.
Deanna Chase, is a native Californian, transplanted to the slower paced lifestyle of southeastern Louisiana. When she isn’t writing, she is often goofing off with her husband in New Orleans, playing with her two shih tzu dogs, or making glass beads.
Violet Vaughn lives in coastal New Hampshire where she spends most mornings in the woods with her dogs, summer at the ocean, and winters skiing in the mountains of Maine.
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