Martha Beale Mysteries

A nineteenth-century Philadelphia heiress must rescue a friend from a criminal underworld. Becky Grey Taitt is not the sort of woman, who would typically infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters, but she is desperate for a powerful judge's help in preventing her abusive husband from taking custody of her child- and that'ss the price the judge set in exchange for his aid. But, the plan goes awry, and now Becky is trapped among criminals and killers. Her only hope is her friend Martha Beale, who, along with her beau, Thomas Kelman, will do everything possible to rescue Becky, in this tale of political machinations, revenge, and murder.

In nineteenth-century Philadelphia, a case of arson turns lethal-but who was the perpetrator and what was the motive? While Thomas Kelman, Martha Beale's beau, investigates the blaze, her adoptive daughter, Ella, is abducted. Then another fire destroys the home of industrialist Darius Rause, killing his adulterous wife. Is there a connection between the crimes? Martha and Kelman work to find an answer as they fight to rescue Ella before she also perishes, in this fast-paced historical crime novel in which duplicity reigns and the destinies of rich and poor collide.