(A Mortal Likeness reads as a standalone and the characters are well-described.) Both Sarah and Hugh are released when a groundskeeper states that they left the park much earlier. Inspector Reid has no soft spot in his heart for this detective duo since their first run-in with him in the previous book, The Ripper's Shadow. Immediately, Sarah and Hugh are arrested on suspicion of double murder. The tension is heightened when the amorous couple is found dead in the bushes shortly thereafter.

But later, Sarah's developed photo reveals a man in the background who greatly resembles her own father who has been missing for ten years. A quick snap taken of the saucy redhead leaning seductively towards him is quite the catch. The gentleman's jilted wife needs proof of his waywardness. She and her detective partner, Lord Hugh Staunton, have been hired to photograph an unsuspecting couple near the Crystal Palace in London. Sarah Bain lifts that camera gently into position. The clock is ticking and Sarah must uncover the truth before her past catches up to her in A Mortal Likeness, the gripping follow-up to bestselling author Laura Joh Rowland’s The Ripper’s Shadow. Now it’s unclear whether the kidnapping is a cover-up to hide the reality of his disappearance, or if it’s truly a cry for help. But it eerily resembles the post-mortem photographs Sarah, herself, takes of deceased children posed to look as if they were alive.

Usually discouraged by a saturated market, Sarah is instead curiously allured as she realizes the case hits much closer to home than she first thought.Īs she dives in, she discovers a photograph of baby Robin Mariner and his mother. When a wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant, all of London joins in, hoping to win that money for themselves. A photographer in Whitechapel, London, Sarah Bain is also a private detective-skilled at capturing others’ dark secrets, and expert at keeping her own.

Aşk Peşinde by Laura Joh Rowland