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Annie and Jane leave Ireland at the height of the Famine. Annie takes her brother and sister to their aunt in New York. She is determined to help other young exiles like herself. Jane, now a convict, is transorted to New South Wales. Vulnerable and alone, she vows to meet Annie again, and dreams of them both returning home to Ireland.

• The first in a historical crime series: The Tumbling Girl kicks off the Variety Palace Mysteries featuring crime-solving duo Minnie and Albert. The Innocents,  book two, will be published in March 2024.• Prize-winning: the manuscript won the UEA Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction 2019.• Set in the bustling world of vaudeville: The Tumbling Girl takes place against the thrilling backdrop of the Variety Palace Music Hall in a gritty Victori...

Victorian crime at its grittiest, most exciting best' ESSIE FOX'Not to be missed' SJ BENNETTIn the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Tumbling Girl, Minnie and Albert take on a new crime-solving quest in the world of a Victorian music hall. The Variety Palace Music Hall is in trouble, due in no small part to a gruesome spate of murders that unfolded around it a few months previously. Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissu...

• The first in a series of historical crime novels set in a dark, glittering Victorian London, with a memorable cast of characters, a strong narrative voice, and a breakneck twist ending. • Set in Victorian London, a clever, darkly funny mystery based around a music hall. • The Tumbling Girl features an unlikely crime fighting duo made up of an ex boxer whose big heart is his downfall, and a streetwise young woman scraping a living at a music ...

Annie Power and Jane Keating have much in common. As young Irish women in the 1840s, they know the value of family, home and friendship. Even more importantly, they understand the need to survive against a backdrop of famine, disease and cruel colonial rule. With Ireland crumbling around them, can these two tenacious women overcome the arc of history and create a better life? Annie is determined to save her home from the landlord's agen...

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Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal documents, broadsides, criminal and scientific writing, illustration and, notably, Victorian melodrama, Bridget Walsh focuses on the relationship between the domestic sphere, so central to Victorian values, and the desecration of that space by the act of murder. Her book tackles crucial questions related to Victorian ideas of nationhood, national health, inequality, newspaper coverage of murder...