Evil abides!

Evidence of Evil (Silver and Grey #2) by Mary Lancaster  

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Solomon Grey and Constance Silver return to a new mystery. Constance has been contacted by a woman she’d helped some years ago

Elizabeth was a young gentlewoman who'd found herself pregnant, abandoned by her supposed fiancé, then turned out onto the streets of London by her parents with nothing but the clothes she stood up in.

Determined to fight for her unborn child this previously protected young woman, ignorant of the hardships she’d face, did the only thing she could to survive—she prostitued herself. Fortunately Constance found her and took her in, helping her to place her child for adoption, and then assisting her to take up various placements as a governess.

Elizabeth’s last position as governess to the children of a widower, ended up with her marrying her employer, Sir Humphrey Maule.

Now however Elizabeth is about to be arrested for murder and has asked Constance for help. The daughter of a neighbor, Miss Frances Niall, went missing. Her body was found, and Elizabeth was the last to see her alive. The problem is Frances and Sir Humphrey apparently had an understanding before Frances went off to India with her father, the Colonel. Now suspicion is cast on Elizabeth.

Constance and Samuel go to Sussex to investigate. 

A lot of water will pass under the bridge before Solomon and Constance discover the truth, but not before details about Elizabeth are exposed to her husband, and Solomon and Constance are nearly killed. 

Then there’s the frisson between Solomon and Constance!

A well developed Victorian mystery!

A Dragonblade ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.