Spotlight of A Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn

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A GRAVE ROBBERY

DEANNA RAYBOURN

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF TARA O'CONNOR | SENIOR PUBLICIST | BERKLEY, AN IMPRINT OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE.

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Fans of Deanna Raybourn’s mysteries will be thrilled for the next installment of her award-winning, bestselling Veronica Speedwell series: A GRAVE ROBBERY.

In their latest adventure, Veronica and Stoker discover that a wax figure of a woman that ends up in their possession isn’t wax at all – but rather a damsel who has met a sinister end. 

The crime-solving duo must figure out who killed the maiden before anyone else meets a similar fate.

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For those who may not be familiar:  the Veronica Speedwell novels are told from the point-of-view of lepidopterist (just fancy word for “butterfly enthusiast”) Veronica, a spunky young aristocratic woman living in 1880s England and constantly thirsting for adventure. 

She is joined in her escapades by her natural historian beau Stoker; their smoldering chemistry, along with the adventures, keeps bringing readers back to the books time and time again.

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March 12, 2024

Berkley Hardcover

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ABOUT A GRAVE ROBBERY:

Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. 

But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. 

The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. 

But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why? 

Sleuthing out the answer to this question sets Veronica and Stoker on their wildest adventure yet. 

From the underground laboratories of scientists experimenting with electricity to resurrect the dead in the vein of Frankenstein to the traveling show where Stoker once toured as an attraction, the gaslit atmosphere of London in October is the perfect setting for this investigation into the unknown.

Through it all, the intrepid pair is always one step behind the latest villain—a man who has killed once and will stop at nothing to recover the body of the woman he loved. 

Will they unmask him in time to save his next victim? 

Or will they become the latest figures to be immortalized in his collection of horrors?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Deanna Raybourn is a 6th-generation native Texan. 

 

She graduated with a double major in English and history from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

 

Deanna Raybourn is the New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Award–nominated author of the Veronica Speedwell Mysteries, the Lady Julia Grey series, and several standalone novels including KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE.

Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards including the Edgar, two RT Reviewers’ Choice awards, the Agatha, two Dilys Winns, and a Last Laugh. She launched a new Victorian mystery series with the 2015 release of A CURIOUS BEGINNING, featuring intrepid butterfly-hunter and amateur sleuth, Veronica Speedwell. 

 

Veronica’s second adventure is A PERILOUS UNDERTAKING (January 2017), and book three, A TREACHEROUS CURSE, was published in 2018 and nominated for the Edgar Award. A DANGEROUS COLLABORATION was released in 2019, and A MURDEROUS RELATION appeared in 2020 and AN UNEXPECTED PERIL published in March 2021. 

 

Married to her college sweetheart and the mother of one, Raybourn makes her home in Virginia.

Visit her online at www.deannaraybourn.com, on Facebook at DeannaRaybournAuthor, and on Twitter @deannaraybourn.

**Photo and Author Information Taken from Her Amazon Page**

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