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Despite suffering a few initial setbacks, the former Beatrice Hyde-Clare has settled into her new position nicely. Thanks to Lady Abercrombie’s machinations, she has secured the admiration of society and finally earned the respect of her staff. Even the lessons in defending herself, which her husband, the Duke of Kesgrave, insists she take if she wants to continue in her dangerous avocation, are going well. But then she learns from a most unlikely source that Kesgrave’s malevolent uncle is scheming to destroy her happiness.

Each year the Bohemian Club - a clique of powerful conservatives whose ranks include Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger - gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter-reader Vejay Haskell is about to get an all-too-close inside look. Searching the countryside for a coworker’s missing niece, she finds the beautiful gymnast lying dead in the bottom of a sewer drain.

Der erste Band der beliebten Krimi-Trilogie um die sizilianische Ermittlerin Serena Vitale: Als einem ranghohen Politiker mit mutmaßlichen Verbindungen zur Mafia der Prozess gemacht wird, ist nicht nur der Staatsanwältin klar, dass sie sich damit weit aus dem Fenster lehnt. Als es nicht mehr zu übersehen ist, dass das kriminelle Netzwerk noch viel weiter verzweigt ist, als anfangs angenommen, muss die Ermittlerin handeln, trotz drohender Gefahr.