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From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Dallas (True Sisters) memorably evokes the raw, rough-edged Denver of 1885 in this blend of suspenseful mystery and nuanced romance. Wealthy Manhattan mission worker Beret Osmundsen breaks off ties with her willful younger sister, Lillie, after she discovers that Lillie has betrayed her trust. When Lillie, now a prostitute in one of Denver's brothels, is found stabbed to death, the guilt-stricken Beret travels west. Beret's socially prominent aunt and uncle provide a home for her in the city, where she teams with Det. Sgt. Michael €œMick€ McCauley, who, like Beret, is a child of privilege pursuing an unconventional profession. After they discover that Lillie was pregnant, a second murder forces their investigation uncomfortably close to people each loves dearly. The author's depiction of 19th-century Denver, especially its seedier side, is vividly authentic, while the nascent bond between Mick and Beret will have readers eagerly anticipating their next encounter. Agents: Danielle Egan-Miller and Joanna MacKenzie, Browne and Millier Literary Associates. (Oct.)
From Booklist
Dallas plumbs the lives of so-called fallen women in 1885 Denver as she ably reveals the ties, sturdy as well as tenuous, that bind two sisters and test the memory of their relationship after one of them is found murdered in a brothel. When Beret Osmundsen, a wealthy New York socialite, arrives in Denver after she receives the news of her sister Lillie’s death, she believes she is prepared to find the truth. Instead, she is led down a path of lies, treachery, and confusion that threatens to undermine everything she has ever believed in. Detective Mick McCauley helps Beret negotiate the serpentine twists encircling the life and death of the sister Beret realizes she didn’t really know at all. As she forges ahead in her determination to see the truth uncovered and justice served, Beret must deal with scandalized relatives who would love to see the situation entirely disappear, the ugliness so readily displayed by a so-called civilized society, and her own conflicting views and emotions. Sure to be snapped up by era fans as well as Dallas’ loyal readership. --Julie Trevelyan
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- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (October 22, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250030935
- ISBN-13: 978-1250030931
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
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Epub Fallen Women
Sandra Dallas is a talented historical literary novelist who makes the past come alive through authentic characters and complex plots. Her latest novel is a smart, capable-women-in-the-Old-West-themed murder mystery. It's set in Denver, Colorado, in 1885. The victim, Lillie, is a beautiful young woman who, only a few short months earlier, started working as a prostitute in the House of Dreams, one of the Denver's best high-class brothels. It's a vicious crime of passion; the young woman is found in her bed stabbed eight times with a pair of scissors. The murderer had to be someone she knew well, someone totally enraged at the time...or perhaps worse, there's a madman on the loose.
When Lillie's wealthy older sister, Beret Osmundsen, hears about her Lillie's death and the scandalous circumstances surrounding it, she is devastated. Beret feels keenly responsible for her younger sister's fate. A year earlier, the two sisters had a significant falling out and Beret forced her sister out of their shared New York home. Lillie fled to Denver, where she took up living with her aunt and uncle, two highly respected members of Denver's elite.
Beret is overcome with questions about her sister's death. She travels to Denver determined to find out what happened no matter the personal and emotional cost. Why did Lillie abandon her charmed high-society socialite life to become a whore in a bordello? What could have happened to drive her from her aunt and uncle's home? Who was Lillie's murderer and what could possibly have been the fiend's motive?
And, of course, we readers want to know what happened a year earlier that caused Beret to force her younger sister out of their New York home. There's a hint of romance, too.
Beret Osmundsen has just had the biggest shock of her life - her beloved younger sister Lillie has been murdered. Even worse, Lillie appeared to have been working for a Denver whorehouse at the time of her death.
In addition to the expected grief, Beret is also nursing an additional pain. After all, it was she who threw Lillie out of their New York mansion following a horrific fight a year earlier. While Beret had expected Lillie to eventually come crawling back, full of regret and apologies, Lillie never did. Instead, she fled to their aunt and uncle's home in Denver, one of the very nicest, thanks to their uncle's being a prominent judge in the quickly growing new city.
Yet unbeknownst to Beret, Lillie suddenly left the Stanton home three months before her death, going to work at Miss hettie's House of Dreams. Beret cannot fathom what could have made her sister - ten years her junior, and all but raised by Beret after their parents' deaths - have done such a thing. Worse, their aunt and uncle are vague on the subject.Ha
So the determined Beret does the only thing she feels she can - she immediately travels to Denver, where she marches into the police station, demanding to work with Detective Sargeant Mick McCauley in solving the case.
Of course, Mick is aghast. It's 1885 and ladies of Beret's level don't exactly run around town investigating murders. But before long, Mick sees Beret's intelligence and the true value she brings to the proceedings. If Beret isn't mistaken, she could also swear that Mick is beginning to like her as an individual, too...
But the more deeply involved Beret gets. the more ugly truths she begins to uncover, not just about the murder, but about who her sister truly was.