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Author: Sandra Dallas
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From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver’s newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart.
It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murdered in the brothel where she had been living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie’s death, she makes her way to Denver, determined to find her sister’s murderer. Detective Mick McCauley may not want her involved in the case, but Beret is determined, and the investigation soon takes her from the dangerous, seedy underworld of Denver’s tenderloin to the highest levels of Denver society. Along the way, Beret not only learns the depths of Lillie’s depravity, but also exposes the sinister side of Gilded Age ambition in the process.
Sandra Dallas once again delivers a page-turner filled with mystery, intrigue, and the kind of intricate detail that truly transports you to another time and place.
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- Print Length: 353 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1250030935
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (October 22, 2013)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CQY9CW0
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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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.