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A Deadly Endeavor By Jenny Adams
Thanks to @tbrbeyondtours & @jadamswrites @crookedlanebooks
Genre: Adult Historical Fiction/Mystery
Publishing date: March 5th, 2024
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SYNOPSIS
Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she’s shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman—and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city, her newfound independence begins to feel dangerous.
Gilbert Lawless returned home from the Great War a shell of his former self. He hides away in the office of Philadelphia’s Coroner, content to keep to himself until a gruesome series of corpses come into the morgue. And when his sister, Lizzie, goes missing, he risks his career to beg help from the one person Lizzie seemed to her employer, Edie Shippen.
Fearing the worst, Edie and Gilbert desperately search for clues. It soon becomes clear that Lizzie’s disappearance is connected to the deaths rocking the City of Brotherly Love… and it’s only a matter of time until the killer strikes again.
REVIEW
From the desk of Gwendalyn:
This book was received from the Author, and Publisher, in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.
This is a non spoiler review, because you as reader need to read this book. Also, I feel sometimes I have in the past gave away to much of the plot line. This has diminished the pleasure for would be readers.
A Deadly Endeavor
By Jenny Adams
Thanks to @tbrbeyondtours & @jadamswrites @crookedlanebooks
A deadly serial killer is on the lose, stalking highborn woman lowborn a like!
1921 Philadelphia Socialite Edie Shippen still suffering from the effects, has recently returned home from convalescing from influenza at her aunts home in sunny San Francisco California. Having lost her dear mother to high contagion, she is dealing with those emotions, as well as the ever occurring headaches left over from the sickness. Reluctantly she is in time to attend her former beau Theo and her twin sister Frances’ engament party.
Veteran Dr Gilbert Lawless, has come away from WW1 suffering from PTS. He find’s solitude in working as the coroner’s assistant manageable. When Edie’s maid, who happens to be Gilbert Lawless’s sister goes missing. Edie and Gilbert finds themselves teamed up together to find the vicious killer who is leaving dead bodies in his wake.
A delightful fun read, that features a murder mystery at the heart of a budding romance. The atmospheric imagery of the roaring twenties comes to life from the pen of Jenny Adams. Read if you enjoy a cozy mysteries with amateur sleuth dealing with trauma.
Happy Reading 🫶📖
AUTHOR
Jenny Adams has always had an overactive imagination. She turned her love of books and stories into a career as a librarian and author. She holds degrees in Medieval Studies and Library Science from The Ohio State University and Drexel University, and currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her family.
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