The Red Monarch

''Teeming with details of the Bront¿ of the times and the city, this is such a pleasurable read'' - NB Magazine

''Captivating'' - Crime Monthly

''Filled with twists, turns and Gothic touches, and a strong feminist streak'' - Bradford Telegraph

The Bront¿isters'' first poetry collection has just been published, potentially marking an end to their careers as amateur detectors, when Anne receives a letter from her former pupil Lydia Robinson.

Lydia has eloped with a young actor, Harry Roxby, and following her disinheritance, the couple been living in poverty in London. Harry has become embroiled with a criminal gang and is in terrible danger after allegedly losing something very valuable that he was meant to deliver to their leader. The desperate and heavily pregnant Lydia has a week to return what her husband supposedly stole, or he will be killed. She knows there are few people who she can turn to in this time of need, b