The River Knows by Amanda Quick

Inadvertently teaming up with a fellow interloper who suspects a prominent society figure of hiding dangerous secrets, bespectacled Louisa Bryce of late-Victorian London investigates her beliefs about the man's connection to a notorious brothel and learns that her partner's fiancée drowned in the Thames under suspicious circumstances. 200,000 first printing.

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