Daughters of Night

<p><b>'The best historical crime novel I will read this year' &ndash; <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson&rsquo;s <i>Daughters of Night</i> follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . .</b><br><br><b>'This is right up there with the best of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor' &ndash; Amanda Craig, author of <i>The Golden Rule</i></b><br><br>London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline &lsquo;Caro&rsquo; Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased