Murder In The East End

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Murder In The East End
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When young cook Kat Holloway learns that the children of London's Foundling Hospital are mysteriously disappearing, she can't turn a blind eye. East End parish vicar Errol Fielding has his suspicions, but the police brush him off, and Kat--and his childhood acquaintance Daniel McAdam--are his last option.Kat and Daniel are determined to solve the mystery, and Kat engages the help of her scullery maid, Elsie, who reveals she had been a foundling. Their investigation takes them to the less hospitable areas of London, including the very streets where Kat grew up. She soon suspects the answers they seek are much closer to home than any of them realized--and may reveal far more than any of them wants.A new upstairs, downstairs Victorian murder mystery in the Kat Holloway series from theNew York Timesbestselling author ofDeath in Kew Gardens.When young cook Kat Holloway learns that the children of London's Foundling Hospital are mysteriously disappearing and one of their nurses has been murdered, she can't turn away.She enlists the help ofher charming and enigmatic confidantDaniel McAdam, who has ties to Scotland Yard,and Errol Fielding, a disreputable man from Daniel's troubled past, to bring the killer to justice. Their investigation takes them from the grandeur of Mayfair to the slums of the East End, during which Kat learns more about Daniel and his circumstances than she ever could have imagined.