{"product_id":"9781643854724","title":"Portrait of Peril","description":"By: Laura Joh Rowland   | Series: A Victorian Mystery \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of C. S. Harris comes Laura Joh Rowland's fifth Victorian mystery where Sarah must confront her own ghosts--and face her most elusive and deadly adversary yet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictorian London is a city gripped by belief in the supernatural--but a grisly murder becomes a matter of flesh and blood for intrepid photographer Sarah Bain.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon, October 1890\u003c\/b\u003e. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain is overjoyed to marry her beloved Detective Sergeant Barrett--but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of the church. Not every newlywed couple begins their marriage with a murder investigation, but Sarah and Barrett, along with their friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly, take the case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dead man is Charles Firth, whose profession is \"spirit photography\"-- photographing the ghosts of the deceased. When Sarah develops the photographs he took in the church, she discovers one with a pale, blurred figure attacking the victim. The city's spiritualist community believes the church is haunted and the figure is a ghost. But Sarah is a skeptic, and she and her friends soon learn that the victim had plenty of enemies in the human world--including a scientist who studies supernatural phenomena, his psychic daughter, and an heiress on a campaign to debunk spiritualism and expose fraudulent mediums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tunnels beneath a demolished jail, a ghost-hunting expedition ends with a new murder, and new suspects. While Sarah searches for the truth about both crimes, she travels a dark, twisted path into her own family's sordid history. Her long lost father is the prime suspect in a cold-case murder, and her reunion with him proves that even the most determined skeptic can be haunted by ghosts from the past.","brand":"Crooked Lane Books","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":46585160990947,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781643854724","price":173.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781643854724.jpg?v=1749877898","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9781643854724","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}