Season of Darkness, Cora Harrison
Season of Darkness, Cora Harrison
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Season of Darkness

Author: Cora Harrison

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 03/01/2021

Synopsis

When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognise the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins would determine to find out who killed her. Led on by fragments of a journal discovered by Isabella's friend Sesina, the two men track the murdered girl's journeys from Greenwich to Snow Hill, from Smithfield Market to St Bartholomews, and put their wits to work on uncovering her past. But what does Sesina know that she's choosing not to tell them?

About Cora Harrison

Cora Harrison worked as a teacher before she decided to write her first novel, and she has since published over two dozen children’s historical novels and many books for adults. She lives on a farm in the west of Ireland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens on September 16, 2019

This exciting novel is the 1st part of the "Gaslight Mystery" series from the author, Cora Harrison. Storytelling is of a very good quality, the atmosphere of Victorian London come wonderfully off the pages, and all the characters come remarkably well to life within this mystery, although I have to a......more

Goodreads review by Sue on July 10, 2019

Season of Darkness is an historical mystery featuring Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins as interested bystanders after a young woman’s body is fished out of the Thames. Dickens’ friend in the police, Inspector Field, notices him and calls him over to where the body is lying. In a major coincidence,......more

Goodreads review by Judy on May 10, 2019

I enjoy reading the novels in Cora Harrison's Burren series so much I was eager to try the first book in this new series set in the Victorian era. This book was just okay for me, certainly different from the pleasure I get from reading about a female judge dispensing Irish justice in the sixteenth c......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on May 25, 2019

First in the Gaslight Mystery Series Cora Harrison is one of my favorite authors. Her Reverand Mother series is wonderful reading! In this new Historical Fiction Series, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins have teamed up to try and solve the murder of a young servant girl named Isabella Gordon. Isabell......more

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