Deadly Curious

In 1834 London, Sophia Thompson dreams of becoming one of the Bow Street Runners, the capital's most skilled investigators. No woman has ever been admitted to their ranks, and her withdrawn relatives have made it clear that such an unbecoming ambition is out of the question.

Her chance arrives in a desperate note from her cousin Daphne, who asks Sophia to look into the questionable death of Daphne's brother. As Sophia works through the knotted clues with the help of an appealing young officer of the law, she begins to suspect that the killer may be nearer to home than she had imagined.