Dangerous

Description

When the disgraced Lord Byron is associated with the deaths of women in Venice, he turns detective to unveil the killer and clear his name. A dazzling, riveting historical mystery by the author of the
Sunday Times bestseller,
The Fascination.

`Brooding and brilliant

A. J. West

`What could so easily have been a risible premise for a novel becomes, in Fox’s expert hands, the starting point for an atmospheric thriller

Sunday Times

`As mesmerising and charismatic as Byron himself can ever have been . . . a magnificent gothic tale of scandal, secrets and murder

Janice Hallett

`Evokes all the grimy charisma of eighteenth-century Venice . . . a mystery as sinuous as the city’s alleys and canals. I was enthralled

Elizabeth Fremantle

`A dark treat . . . splendidly gothic and impressively researched

Andrew Taylor

`Essie Fox breathes new life into the „mad, bad and dangerous to know“ Lord Byron as the notorious poet turns detective . . . Rich with decadent imagery and dark, gothic atmosphere,
Dangerous intricately blends historical fact and fiction

Culturefly

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Fiction can be fatal. . .

Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city.

SCANDAL

But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then a novel called
The Vampyre is published under his name, rumours begin to spread that Byron may be the murderer. . .

MURDER

As events escalate and tensions rise – and his own life is endangered, as well as those he holds most dear – Byron is forced to play detective, to discover who is really behind these heinous crimes. Meanwhile, the scandals of his own infamous past come back to haunt him. . .

MYSTERY

Rich in gothic atmosphere and drawing on real events and characters from Byron’s life,
Dangerous is a riveting, dazzling historical thriller, as decadent, dark and seductive as the poet himself. . .

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`A plot as labyrinthine as the Venice backstreets, told in dazzling prose

Erin Kelly

`Brilliant, daring writing

Anna Mazzola

`Expertly weaves fact and fiction

Anita Frank

`Sumptuous, entertaining and glorious

C. S. Green

`Fox is the queen of darkly glittering gothic fiction . . . I devoured it in one sitting

Louisa Treger

`Many writers have tried and failed to capture the Byronic quintessence, but the brilliant Essie Fox has succeeded admirably

Alex Larman

`Scandalously scintillating

Kate Griffin

`Gorgeously clever

Amanda Craig

`A ravishing tale of murder, lust and thwarted ambition

Emma Carroll

`A deliciously gothic and beautifully written historical thriller

Frances Quinn

`Captures the Byronic soul in all its beauty and madness

Victoria Dowd

`Deliciously dark

Paul Burston

`An engaging historical mystery

Time & Leisure Magazine

`Impeccably researched and compellingly told

Bridget Walsh

`What a ride! Gripping and atmospheric

Caroline Lea

`Fastidiously researched, richly imagined, full of wonderful s of Venice

Michael Stewart