Book description
On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death. Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current Queen of England) is adamant that the death in question is a magically compromised murder and…
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1 author picked The Hanged Man as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Imagine a Victorian England where psychic powers are used in a separate branch of the government to help with law enforcement. Add in a bid to take over the country, a young woman whose powers force her to et herself apart from others, throw in some family drama to boot, and what's not to like!
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