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978-0715655122

Eliza Mace

Eliza Mace

by Sarah Burton & Jem Poster

Publisher Duckworth

Genre: Historical Fiction

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Enola Holmes meets the novels of Laura Purcell in this Victorian mystery featuring quick-witted would-be detective Eliza Mace

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In the first of a thrilling new Victorian detective series, Eliza Mace, on the cusp of adulthood, is battling for her independence. Stuck in a crumbling manor house in the Welsh borders in the 1870s, she is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect, control and deceive her. But when her father goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Eliza’s determination to uncover the truth is unstoppable.

Joining forces with the charismatic new police constable, Dafydd Pritchard, she sets out to solve the case, but that’s no easy task. Her father has run up debts in town and beyond, and there are many who bear him a grudge. As she searches for evidence, Eliza exposes dark secrets that threaten to tear her world apart...

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About the Author

Sarah Burton & Jem Poster

Sarah Burton has taught creative writing for Cambridge and Oxford. She has published several books, including two biographies, Impostors and A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb, and the award-winning novel The Strange Adventures of H, which was also shortlisted for the HWA Debut Fiction Crown.

Jem Poster has taught creative writing for the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Aberystwyth. He is the author of two acclaimed historical novels, Courting Shadows and Rifling Paradise, and co-author, with Sarah Burton, of a handbook for fiction writers, The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write.

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