Bloody Lessons: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery

M. Louisa Locke

Nov 2016 · A Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series Book 3 · M. Louisa Locke

About this ebook

Third book in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series.

 

In Bloody Lessons, the third book in the bestselling Victorian San Francisco mystery series, it's the winter of 1880, and the public school teachers of San Francisco are under attack: their salaries slashed and their competency and morals questioned in a series of poison pen letters. 

Annie Fuller, the reluctant clairvoyant, has been called in to investigate by Nate Dawson, her lawyer beau, and the case becomes personal when they discover that Nate's sister Laura may be one of the teachers being targeted.

In this historical mystery, readers will find the same blend of a cozy mystery and romantic suspense that they found in Locke’s Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits. However, if new to this series, they will still enjoy spending time with the lively residents of Annie Fuller's O’Farrell Street boardinghouse and visiting San Francisco when Golden Gate Park was filled with horse-drawn carriages, politics were controlled by saloon-keepers, and kisses were stolen under gaslight. 

 

Bloody Lessons is followed by Deadly Proof, and Pilfered Promises, and Locke’s shorter works, found in Victorian San Francisco Stories and Victorian San Francisco Novellas, feature minor characters from the series.

Ratings and reviews

Another fabulous adventure with Annie Fuller. I love the depth of all the characters and how involved you get with all of them. It's like having an extended family. The mysteries are well thought out and the historical background of them makes them that much more interesting. I love watching history happen with the story and the news clippings at the beginning of each chapter. This book was back to cleaner language although still a few swear words, not as many as the last one. One paragraph of Nate's erotic wandering thoughts was distracting from the story and overall not really fitting with the usual theme or style of the books. It's not erotic as such but simply more sensual than fits. I'm hoping this doesn't increase. Still in love with these books and have already started on the next one.

A page turner i couldn't wait to pick it up every time I had to go to work or some place I couldn't read loved the whole book and the one that started the series also

The main character is selfish and one of the biggest whiners I have ever read...I couldn't finish the book