A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn
20 years ago, the Seven Sinners, rich Cambridge students, took a Grand Tour. Lorenzo died. Now, two Sinners have been murdered to avenge his death. Can Veronica & Stoker unmask the killer before more die? A Victorian mystery with many twists & turns.
A Sinister Revenge is the 8th book in this 10-book series. Veronica Speedwell is the series protagonist, an unconventional Victorian lepidopterist, scientist, and lady adventurer. Her love interest is Revelstoke "Stoker" Templeton-Vane, a natural historian, scientist, and taxidermist. In this book, the butterflies play a minor role, but Stoker restores a Megalosaurus. Throughout the book, Stoker is estranged from Veronica, while she attempts to seduce him.
The mystery begins when Tiberius Templeton-Vane is threatened because of the twenty-year-old death of Lorenzo d'Ambrogio. Twenty years ago, seven Cambridge University gentlemen (The Seven Sinners) went on a Grand Tour that culminated at Cherboys, Tiberius’s ancestral home. Lorenzo’s death was declared an accident, but now two of the group have been murdered to avenge his death. Tiberius stages a reunion at Cherboys to uncover the murderer.
Veronica and Stoker assist in the investigation. Tiberius invited the two remaining survivors, along with their wives. Sir James MacIver and Augusta, his philanthropist wife. Pietro Salviati and his young American wife, Beatrice.
Beatrice has a weak heart and is murdered with strychnine at the reunion dinner. There are many twists and turns before the murder is revealed, and Veronica is reunited with Stoker.
Fossils play a major part in the mystery, and reference is made to the real-life 19th-century fossil collector, Mary Anning.
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