Veronica Speedwell Mystery - A Curious Beginning

by Deanna Raybourn

After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica Speedwell intends to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry-and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb.But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. The baron offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker-a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But before the baron can reveal his secrets, he is found murdered. Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run, wary partners in search of the villainous truth...

• ISBN13: 9781785650482
• Publish Date: 2 October 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 5 October 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Titan Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Veronica Speedwell is home to nurse her dying aunt. Her world starts to fall apart when she dies, Veronica has plans for her future that she has to put on hold to survive.  Into her life comes an enigmatic German baron who knows something about her past. He passes her to his friend Stoker for her safety and then he dies, now Stoker and Veronica are suspects and to clear their names they have to investigate.
 
Veronica is a lot of fun, interesting and no-nonsense, like several of her countrywomen of the period.