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In this mystery From the national bestselling author of Murder on Trinity Place, midwife Sarah Brandt and former police detective Frank Malloy investigate a murder in the secretive, high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City... In the midst of Sarah and Frank’s wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Oakes, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. But Charles’s father believes his son was poisoned, and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion. Putting off their own personal affairs, Sarah and Frank soon learn that not everyone wants to know more about Charles’s death, particularly if he was murdered. As they unravel secrets that reach back to the Civil War, they also discover that they are in the company of a very present danger...
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24 primary booksGaslight Mystery is a 24-book series with 24 released primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Victoria Thompson.
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Feels like we are back to normal after book 16 which was very dark. Normally I want mystery books to be about mystery and the love life of characters are dull. But here I want to know what all the characters are up to. A little slow on that but I assume next book will pick up on a lot of that.