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CAPE REDEMPTION: A Victorian Mystery Adventure
Cape Redemption .
A Victorian murder mystery featuring the same police detective from the earlier novel Leviathan ...
In the 1850s there is one particular cape on the southern coast of Australia that is a symbol of hope for emigrant ships sailing out to Melbourne during the goldrush. So this cape has become known to the clipper crews as Cape Redemption , for the first sighting of it means salvation to both crew and passengers after an epic voyage of 13000 miles from England…
And in January of 1855, one particular clipper called the Lightning sets sail from Liverpool bound for Melbourne with more than five hundred passengers on board looking for a new life in a new country. Yet some of these passengers are carrying dark secrets of lust and betrayal and murder…
A month previously, in Victorian London in December 1854, a young governess called Anne Pardoe had gone on trial accused of murdering her wealthy employer, Mrs Mildred Dallam, in a mansion in Highgate…
Sergeant Charlie Sparrow of the Metropolitan Police’s detective branch finds himself in the Old Bailey giving evidence against Anne Pardoe. But because of his equivocal evidence, Anne Pardoe is acquitted against the odds. Then, a few days later, Mrs Dallam’s husband is also murdered by a woman answering Anne Pardoe’s description. Anxious to make amends for his apparent mistake in helping to get a guilty woman acquitted, Sparrow learns that Pardoe is now using the name Fanny Moorhouse and may have fled the country for Australia…
In Liverpool, a former mill girl, Rose Cummings , is about to set off for Australia in the clipper vessel Lightning with her mistress Mrs Emily Kinglake, who is going out to the new colony of Victoria to join her engineer husband, Giles. Rose has only lately been taken on by Emily Kinglake as her maid and companion after Rose’s sister, Dorothy, had tragically hanged herself while in the employ of Mrs Kinglake.
When the Lightning leaves Liverpool on its three-month journey to Melbourne, Rose gets to know some of her fellow passengers well, including a young woman called Fanny Moorhouse…
On board the Lightning , the crew and passengers have to face many challenges – first a terrible storm, and then an outbreak of the dreaded disease of cholera among the steerage passengers. But Rose Cummings is also beginning to suspect that some of the passengers are carrying some dark secrets with them, and that there may even be a murderer on board…
Soon Rose finds her own life threatened and needs help to survive . But who does she trust among the passengers and crew? For she is no longer sure of anyone …
A Victorian murder mystery featuring the same police detective from the earlier novel Leviathan ...
In the 1850s there is one particular cape on the southern coast of Australia that is a symbol of hope for emigrant ships sailing out to Melbourne during the goldrush. So this cape has become known to the clipper crews as Cape Redemption , for the first sighting of it means salvation to both crew and passengers after an epic voyage of 13000 miles from England…
And in January of 1855, one particular clipper called the Lightning sets sail from Liverpool bound for Melbourne with more than five hundred passengers on board looking for a new life in a new country. Yet some of these passengers are carrying dark secrets of lust and betrayal and murder…
A month previously, in Victorian London in December 1854, a young governess called Anne Pardoe had gone on trial accused of murdering her wealthy employer, Mrs Mildred Dallam, in a mansion in Highgate…
Sergeant Charlie Sparrow of the Metropolitan Police’s detective branch finds himself in the Old Bailey giving evidence against Anne Pardoe. But because of his equivocal evidence, Anne Pardoe is acquitted against the odds. Then, a few days later, Mrs Dallam’s husband is also murdered by a woman answering Anne Pardoe’s description. Anxious to make amends for his apparent mistake in helping to get a guilty woman acquitted, Sparrow learns that Pardoe is now using the name Fanny Moorhouse and may have fled the country for Australia…
In Liverpool, a former mill girl, Rose Cummings , is about to set off for Australia in the clipper vessel Lightning with her mistress Mrs Emily Kinglake, who is going out to the new colony of Victoria to join her engineer husband, Giles. Rose has only lately been taken on by Emily Kinglake as her maid and companion after Rose’s sister, Dorothy, had tragically hanged herself while in the employ of Mrs Kinglake.
When the Lightning leaves Liverpool on its three-month journey to Melbourne, Rose gets to know some of her fellow passengers well, including a young woman called Fanny Moorhouse…
On board the Lightning , the crew and passengers have to face many challenges – first a terrible storm, and then an outbreak of the dreaded disease of cholera among the steerage passengers. But Rose Cummings is also beginning to suspect that some of the passengers are carrying some dark secrets with them, and that there may even be a murderer on board…
Soon Rose finds her own life threatened and needs help to survive . But who does she trust among the passengers and crew? For she is no longer sure of anyone …
367 pages, Paperback
Published July 16, 2022
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October 2, 2023
A thoroughly enjoyable book. Very cleverly plotted with many potential villains and suitors amongst a cast of believable and mostly likeable characters. It keeps you guessing until the end; although I did spot one villain fairly early on I was never sure.
I didn’t want to put it down.
Highly recommended if you like historical detective novels with plenty of adventures. Do read his other books too! Look out for the Sunderland references slipped in.
I didn’t want to put it down.
Highly recommended if you like historical detective novels with plenty of adventures. Do read his other books too! Look out for the Sunderland references slipped in.
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