(Sarah Tanner 1)

A Most Dangerous Woman

'Evokes the colour and danger of Victorian London with a master's touch ... an exhilarating experience' Daily Express

A writer who evokes the colour and danger of Victorian London with a master's touch ... moving with Jackson's mystified characters through the swirling fogs of our pre-electric capital city is an exhilarating experience

A feisty heroine, atmospheric settings, and an express-speed narrative full of twists and surprises. Victorian murder mysteries don't come better

Lose yourself in Jackson's atmospheric writing as he introduces us to his intriguing Victorian heroine, Sarah Tanner. Jackson is a writer who not only knows his history but who knows how to tell a truly engrossing tale

L.M. JACKSON lives in London with his partner Joanne. His first book, London Dust, was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. He is fascinated by the social history of Victorian London and spends much of his time on the ongoing development of his website www.victorianlondon.org

It was said that she had the good manners of a respectable upper servant but was far too young to have been pensioned; that she spoke as if she had received and education, but knew the costers' slang as if she were born-and-bred to it; and that she not only had no husband - which was a commonplace on Leather Lane - but seemed never to have possessed one...' 
 
When the mysterious Sarah Tanner opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms on the corner of Leather Lane and Liquorpond Street, her arrival amongst the poor market-traders causes something of a stir. Few doubt that she has 'a past'; no-one could have predicted how it will return to haunt her... 
 
When an old friend is brutally murdered, Sarah Tanner is the only witness. Unable to turn to the police, she finds herself drawn back into the dark underworld of the Victorian metropolis... Relying on her wits, and trading on her past, Sarah Tanner risks her own life on a desperate quest for justice and vengeance.

L M Jackson

Very enjoyable and impressively researched

L. M. Jackson is deft with his dovetailing, and it is a pleasure to follow Sarah Tanner as she outfoxes the villains.

Watch out Mma Ramotswe, there's a new number one lady detective on the scene - the glorious Sarah Tanner - in a book that's as thick with Victorian atmosphere as a London Particular

(Sarah Tanner 2)

The second mystery for lady detective Sarah Tanner in L. M. Jackson's gripping series set in 1850s London. 
 
A desperate plea from her former lover, the aristocrat Arthur DeSalle, turns Sarah Tanner's quiet life upside down. 
 
Arthur needs Sarah's help. Suspicious of the hold that Dr Stead, renowned practitioner of the strange art of mesmerism, has gained on his aging parents, he hope to expose him as a fraud. 
 
But Mrs Tanner is troubled closer to home by a series of increasingly violent confrontations with a gang of Lambeth youths intent, it seems, on putting her out of business. What is their interest in her humble Dining and Coffee Rooms? And what is the closely guarded secret which connects the sinister doctor to the young thugs, and threatens to destroy a family's honour? 
 
Her very life at stake, her loyalty tested, Sarah Tanner sets out on a trail of murder and deceit, which stretches from the alleys of Leather Lane to the drawing-rooms of Mayfair...

L M Jackson

Praise for The Mesmerist's Apprentice

Very enjoyable and impressively researched

L. M. Jackson is deft with his dovetailing, and it is a pleasure to follow Sarah Tanner as she outfoxes the villains.

Watch out Mma Ramotswe, there's a new number one lady detective on the scene - the glorious Sarah Tanner - in a book that's as thick with Victorian atmosphere as a London Particular

Very enjoyable and impressively researched

L. M. Jackson is deft with his dovetailing, and it is a pleasure to follow Sarah Tanner as she outfoxes the villains.

Watch out Mma Ramotswe, there's a new number one lady detective on the scene - the glorious Sarah Tanner - in a book that's as thick with Victorian atmosphere as a London Particular

Very enjoyable and impressively researched

L. M. Jackson is deft with his dovetailing, and it is a pleasure to follow Sarah Tanner as she outfoxes the villains.

Watch out Mma Ramotswe, there's a new number one lady detective on the scene - the glorious Sarah Tanner - in a book that's as thick with Victorian atmosphere as a London Particular

Books by L M Jackson

Series by L M Jackson

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