Part of Series
Inspector Jones' most dangerous case starts with a single death. It’s winter in Victorian London, and Inspector Royston Jones is determined to solve the mysterious murder of a young Irish woman new to the city. Suspects abound, from the woman’s wealthy husband to Fenians to werewolf rights activists. Is the itinerant stage magician newly arrived to Royston’s uncle’s household somehow involved? Is the man from the Home Office here only to serve his own agenda? When a bomb goes off outside Scotland Yard, the stakes grow higher. Royston is running out of time, and he has few he can trust outside of a clandestine werewolf and a lady alchemist with attitude. If he wants to save his hard-won reputation, his career, and the city he loves, he'll need to find the murderer before suspicion, fear, and rage blow London apart.
Author
From earliest childhood, Shawna Reppert has had a passion for stories—for reading them and for writing them. She obtained a BA in English with a Writing Option from Penn State University and has participated in numerous writing workshops and seminars given by the likes of Charles de Lint, David Farland and Elizabeth Lyon. Two of her stories have won honorable mentions from Writers of the Future. Previous short stories sold to 10 Flash Quarterly and to Everyday Fiction can be read for free at their websites. Several 'indie' short stories are available for sale at Amazon, and her story 'The Beast Within' will appear in the second Gears and Levers anthology, edited by Phyllis Irene Radford. Her first novel is due out as a Carina Press e-book in the summer of 2013. In college, Shawna volunteered at a raptor rehabilitation center, which became valuable background for her short story The Sword and the Kestrel. Shawna has always had an affinity for wolves, and used to keep a wolf-dog hybrid as a pet. Her current four-footed children are a Lipizzan stallion and an orange-and-black cat named Samhain. She enjoys Irish social dancing and is an ardent supporter of live Irish music. Shawna also likes to play with the Society for Creative Anachronism and can sometimes be found in medieval garb on a caparisoned horse, throwing javelins into innocent hay bales that never did anything to her. A Pennsylvania native, she currently lives in the beautiful wine county of Oregon.
