"I was in the middle of Leicester Square in London, trying unsuccessfully to visualize what it would have looked like 170 years ago, when I accidentally stepped into the path of one of those quiet, electric-powered, sweeper trucks," says A Dangerous Affair author Caro Peacock. "The driver stopped, remarkably good tempered. 'Looking for something, love?' Yes, I said. I’ve lost 1838. He just grinned and drove on. They’re used to nuts in Leicester Square.”
Caro Peacock keeps you guessing who the killer is. Liberty Lane gets her second murder case to solve. Disraeli calls upon Liberty Lane. She’s out riding her horse when he asks her to find out what she can about Columbine, a ballet dancer. Before Liberty can find out much, Columbine is murdered.
"I nearly broke my neck in a trampoline accident. “So, I wrote quite a lot of A Dangerous Affair with my head tilted sideways. Better now, and upright."
“A Dangerous Affair grew directly from the first Liberty Lane novel: A Foreign Affair," says Peacock. "I’d left her homeless and with no money, on her way to London with a couple of friends and a thoroughbred mare. I had to see where she went from there.”
“Liberty Lane’s 22 years old in this book, with both parents dead and only one close relative," says Peacock. "A younger brother is serving with the East India Company, so he’s too far away to help or disapprove. She’s had a good, though unconventional, education and speaks several foreign languages. Her parents were radically inclined and approved of the French revolution, which makes her a bit of an outsider socially and politically.”
“Her manners are ladylike, unless seriously provoked," says Peacock. "She’d like to have more to spend on clothes, but with an unpredictable income, most of what she wears is stylish second-hand. She’s at her happiest when riding at a gallop in London’s Hyde Park on her horse, Rancie."
Who's the killer? There are many possibilities. The writing is old fashioned in the depth of details, but it doesn’t get too bogged down. Enjoy the ride to find out who the killer is.
Caro Pecock grew up in the Yorkshire Dales.
A Dangerous Affair by Caro Peacock. TradePaperback, 320 pages, Publisher: Avon A (January 27, 2009), Language: English. ISBN: 9780061447488 $13.99 |
