Uneasy Spirits: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery
by M. Louisa Locke
In this sequel to Maids of Misfortune, it is the fall of 1879 and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, has a problem. Despite her growing financial success as the clairvoyant Madam Sibyl, Annie doesn’t believe in the astrology and palmistry her clients think are the basis for her advice.
Kathleen Hennessey, Annie Fuller’s young Irish maid, has a plan. When her mistress is asked to expose a fraudulent trance medium, Arabella Frampton, Kathleen is determined to assist in the investigation, just like the Pinkerton detectives she has read about in the dime novels.
Nate Dawson, up-and-coming San Francisco lawyer, has a dilemma. He wants to marry the unconventional Annie Fuller, but he doesn’t feel he can reveal his true feelings until he has a way to make enough money to support her.
In Uneasy Spirits, this cozy, romantic novel of suspense, Annie delves into the intriguing world of 19th century spiritualism, encountering true believers and naïve dupes, clever frauds and unexplained supernatural phenomena.
She will soon find there are as many secrets as there are spirits swirling around the Frampton séance table. Some of those secrets will threaten the foundation of her career as Madam Sibyl and the future of her relationship with Nate Dawson, and, in time, they will threaten her very life itself.
M. Louisa Locke is a recently retired professor of U.S. and Women’s history at San Diego Mesa College. Dr. Locke has now taken her story telling in a new direction with her Victorian San Francisco mystery series. The first of that series, Maids of Misfortune, was a finalist in the historical fiction category of the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, a 2012 B.R.A.G. MedallionTM Honoree, and it, and the sequel, Uneasy Spirits, are historical mystery bestsellers on Kindle. Her short stories, Dandy Detects and The Misses Moffet Mend a Marriage, are based on characters from her novels and can also be found on Kindle.
For those of you have read any of her work, Locke would love to hear from you at mlouisalocke@gmail.com, and she would really appreciate if you could spend a few minutes writing a review on Amazon.com.
Locke is currently living in San Diego with her husband and assorted animals, where she is working on Bloody Lessons, the next installment of her series of historical mysteries set in Victorian San Francisco.
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