CAPE REDEMPTION: A Victorian Mystery Adventure ($3.99 to Free)

Author: Gordon John Thomson.

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 (45 Reviews)

Book Description:

Cape Redemption.
A Victorian murder mystery featuring the same police detective, Charlie Sparrow, from the earlier novel Leviathan...
In the 1850s there is one particular cape on the southern coast of Australia that is a symbol of hope for emigrant ships sailing out to Melbourne during the goldrush. So this cape has become known to the clipper crews as Cape Redemption, for the first sighting of it means salvation to both crew and passengers after an epic voyage of 13000 miles from England…
And in January of 1855, one particular clipper called the Lightning sets sail from Liverpool bound for Melbourne with more than five hundred passengers on board looking for a new life in a new country. Yet some of these passengers are carrying dark secrets of lust and betrayal and murder…
A month previously, in Victorian London in December 1854, a young governess called Anne Pardoe had gone on trial accused of murdering her wealthy employer, Mrs Mildred Dallam, in a mansion in Highgate…
Sergeant Charlie Sparrow of the Metropolitan Police’s detective branch finds himself in the Old Bailey giving evidence against Anne Pardoe. But because of his equivocal evidence, Anne Pardoe is acquitted against the odds. Then, a few days later, Mrs Dallam’s husband is also murdered by a woman answering Anne Pardoe’s description. Anxious to make amends for his apparent mistake in helping to get a guilty woman acquitted, Sparrow learns that Pardoe is now using the name Fanny Moorhouse and may have fled the country for Australia…
In Liverpool, a former mill girl,