Conspiracy in the Shadows: Melodies of Deceit

London, 1873. Amelia Thorne is thirty-six, unmarried, and a music transcriber scraping by in rented rooms above a disapproving landlady. Eight years ago, she buried her father, the composer Adam Thorne, and buried her questions about his sudden death along with him. She accepted the physician's diagnosis of pneumonia. She accepted the housekeeper's assurances. She accepted everything, because grie...