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The Case of the Runaway Client (Caster & Fleet Mysteries Book 2) Kindle Edition
When Katherine and Connie take on a case at a music hall, they enter a new, exciting, and frightening world.
The duo are hired to calm the nerves of Ellen Howe, top of the bill at the Merrymakers Music Hall. She keeps freezing on stage, though she insists that nothing is wrong. It seems like an easy case - until Ellen disappears, leaving only a note behind her. And the rest of the cast are giving nothing away.
Katherine and Connie have to win the trust of Ellen’s fellow-performers to have a chance of finding her. But the deeper they plunge into the world of the music hall, the more secrets they must hide from their families and loved ones - and the more danger they find themselves in, as the threats against them turn from words to actions...
Can they see through the glamour of the stage to find out what really happened to the missing star?
The Case of the Runaway Client is the second book in the Caster & Fleet mystery series, set in 1890s London.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 24, 2018
- File size2.4 MB
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- ASIN : B07DLDZNFB
- Publisher : White Rhino Books (July 24, 2018)
- Publication date : July 24, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 2.4 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 218 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #442,257 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,759 in Murder
- #8,784 in Murder Thrillers
- #11,151 in Amateur Sleuths
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Liz Hedgecock grew up in London, England, did an English degree, and then took forever to start writing. After several years working in the National Health Service, some short stories crept into the world. A few even won prizes. Then the stories started to grow longer...
Now Liz travels between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, murdering people. To be fair, she does usually clean up after herself.
Liz’s reimaginings of Sherlock Holmes, her Pippa Parker cozy mystery series, and the Caster & Fleet Victorian mystery series (with Paula Harmon) are available in ebook and paperback.
Liz lives in Cheshire with her husband and two sons, and when she’s not writing or child-wrangling you can usually find her reading, messing about on Twitter, or cooing over stuff in museums and art galleries. That's her story, anyway, and she's sticking to it.
Further info lurks at http://lizhedgecock.wordpress.com. For bite-sized pieces, follow Liz on Twitter at @lizhedgecock.
To receive my monthly newsletter for upcoming releases and book news visit https://paulaharmon.com/newsletter/
Paula Harmon was born in north London but her life as a country girl began at eighteen months when the family moved out, trailing slowly westwards from small town to village before settling in South Wales when she was eight.
Her writing life started with “Clanger” fan fiction and making up stories to act out with a kindred spirit. These largely involved flying unicorns. In later Welsh years, she wandered lonely as a … well, lonely person, in woods and streams and wrote about portals to another world and mysterious woodland spirits. But her greatest love was for historical fiction and mysteries and now she's writing her own.
With no clear idea what she wanted to be when she grew up apart from a writer, she graduated from Chichester University (Bishop Otter College) with a BA in English Literature and a vague idea that, after a bit of life experience, if all else failed, she’d become a teacher, even though she had never grown taller than the average ten year old. Whatever else happened, she was determined NOT to become a civil servant like her mother and be able to talk in form numbers.
At her first job interview, she answered “where do you see yourself in 10 years” with “writing” as opposed to “progressing in your company.” She didn’t get that job. She tried teaching and realised the one thing the world did not need was another bad teacher. Somehow or other she subsequently ended up as a civil servant and if you need to know a form number, she is your woman.
Her short stories include dragons, angst ridden teenagers, portals and civil servants (though not all in the same story - yet). Perhaps all the life experience was worth it in the end.
She lives in Dorset with her husband, has two adult children..
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2023how can I say this - even better than the first. In the first book,all of the characters and their connections and the settings needed to be established while also solving the mystery. In the second book, the characters and there bonds made solving the mystery so much more hazardous and gripping. THE CASE OF THE RUNAWAY CLIENT is only the beginning of the story. What follows puts all of the players at risk and in danger. A very enjoyable read.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019A good read but not quite as good as the first. Seems to have lost some of it's Sherlock Holmes vibe. Although the romance angle is sweet - I'm not sure that Connie would have been quite as forward when you take her upbringing into consideration.
A letter from the Doctor has them intrigued. There is something going on in the background of the star of his musical hall. His star has frozen several times and that is beginning to worry him. Add in a disappearance, a new act at the music hall, two dead women, a battered wife, a battered reporter and threats. Will the two unlikely friends find out what has been happening on the darker side of life? Will their respective romances progress further? Will Connie ever get away from her overbearing mother?
- Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2021I've enjoyed both books so far and will definitely keep reading! The two ladies - from different social backgrounds - who accidently meet (in the first book) and become friends and partners in sniffing out answers to crimes - are fun to read about, with their personal ups and downs as well as the crime-related parts and bits of romance. (My favorite small detail is the new popularity of split skirts and bicycle riding for women!)
- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2018Lots to like about this series: delightful characters, good use of the Victorian London setting, and interesting plots. The mysteries are clever, but this is a character-driven series and there is some romance along the way (nothing that could be called offensive) that adds interest too. A nice evening's read.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2018A good read.Take two ladies of different social levels ,add a interesting case set in Victorian-era London,stir in some well rounded characters,and serve up a quite enjoyable story.I am looking forward to the next book.
Top reviews from other countries
- RMDReviewed in Canada on July 29, 2019
3.0 out of 5 stars Fair to middling.
The characters are pleasant, the story goes on just a bit too long, at which point this reader started to lose interest. On the whole, not bad.
- Sam KruitReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars A one-sitting read
It's a good job I didn't have anything to do on the day I finished the first chapter with a cup of tea, because all I did until I finished was to top up my teacup. I love the ladies, I want to borrow Albert to go to a music hall with, and I have more than an itsy bitsy crush on cheeky James King....
- SHReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars A cosy Victorian mystery
Caster and Fleet are at it again, trying to get to the bottom of a music hall mystery, a young woman has disappeared and the lady sleuths have to go undercover to find her. There is also a bit of romance. This book will make you smile, I had read the previous one in the series, and this had introduced me to the characters.
- jacReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 21, 2022
3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read
Nice light read with a bit of a back story,would give it Three and a half stars if it was possible
- Kindle CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
I have just read the first two books back-to-back and am about to start the third! Great characters and plots.