Simple Twists of Fate (Victorian Mysteries)
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Publisher
Independently published
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9798314939062Synopsis
1894. London.
When Flora Bustle is accused of stealing from the washhouse where she works, her world quickly unravels.
Unable to pay her rent, Flora is recruited by a woman called ‘Mother’ Joy, into an all-female gang, The Forty Thieves, run by the beautiful and enigmatic gangster Mary Carr.
Flora is first driven by the need to survive, and then, as she grows in power, she craves revenge on the woman who had her removed from the washhouse.
Meanwhile, Georgie Drabble, an abandoned child fighting to survive, discovers a corpse. It is the body of a woman who has shown him kindness in the past, one of The Forty Thieves. Georgie soon finds himself abandoned by his mother and ends up on the doorstep of the gang.
Flora continues her life of crime and encounters Albert Gorman, the leader of The Elephant and Castle gang. Gorman attempts to seduce her, but Flora is left fearing for her safety as she attempts to navigate the hierarchy of the gang.
Georgie, desperate to earn the trust of his new ‘family’, is used as a ‘snakesman’, small enough to crawl into open windows to gain access to buildings, and then let the other gang members in.
Other members of The Forty Thieves are found dead at intervals. Nobody knows who is killing them.
Flora’s opportunity for revenge arrives when Carr orders her to the house of the woman who ruined her. Except Flora realises that she doesn’t desire revenge. She wants to escape to a whole new life.
Choices need to be made - as it becomes clear who has been murdering the other gang members and why…
Emma Woodhouse previously worked as a Victorian demonstrator. She lives in the UK. Her other books include The Prendergast Watch, Mercy and Mary, Queen of the Forty.
When Flora Bustle is accused of stealing from the washhouse where she works, her world quickly unravels.
Unable to pay her rent, Flora is recruited by a woman called ‘Mother’ Joy, into an all-female gang, The Forty Thieves, run by the beautiful and enigmatic gangster Mary Carr.
Flora is first driven by the need to survive, and then, as she grows in power, she craves revenge on the woman who had her removed from the washhouse.
Meanwhile, Georgie Drabble, an abandoned child fighting to survive, discovers a corpse. It is the body of a woman who has shown him kindness in the past, one of The Forty Thieves. Georgie soon finds himself abandoned by his mother and ends up on the doorstep of the gang.
Flora continues her life of crime and encounters Albert Gorman, the leader of The Elephant and Castle gang. Gorman attempts to seduce her, but Flora is left fearing for her safety as she attempts to navigate the hierarchy of the gang.
Georgie, desperate to earn the trust of his new ‘family’, is used as a ‘snakesman’, small enough to crawl into open windows to gain access to buildings, and then let the other gang members in.
Other members of The Forty Thieves are found dead at intervals. Nobody knows who is killing them.
Flora’s opportunity for revenge arrives when Carr orders her to the house of the woman who ruined her. Except Flora realises that she doesn’t desire revenge. She wants to escape to a whole new life.
Choices need to be made - as it becomes clear who has been murdering the other gang members and why…
Emma Woodhouse previously worked as a Victorian demonstrator. She lives in the UK. Her other books include The Prendergast Watch, Mercy and Mary, Queen of the Forty.
Dimensions
8 inches × 0.55 inches × 5 inches
