Asylum Murders

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the shadowed halls of power and madness only the bold dare search for the truth.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>1890's Melbourne</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. In the flickering gaslight of Victoria Parliament's inner chambers a prized symbol of government-the ceremonial Mace-disappears following a night of decadent indulgence involving parliamentarians and officials. Lady Edith Black a former thief turned Melbourne's most unconventional investigator is drawn into the mystery. Though her past remains hidden her talent and determination is unmatched-and her instincts tell her the Mace is merely the tip of something far darker.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The night the Mace disappears a young woman is discovered near death. The two crimes intertwine and lead Edie to the foreboding gates of Kew Asylum where her closest friend Britina-a novice nun assigned to care for patients-has made a disturbing discovery: patients are vanishing without explanation. When Britina becomes a risk to a sinister plan she is swiftly silenced declared criminally insane and locked away among the very souls she sought to protect.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To rescue her friend Edie must step into the asylum's grim world of medical secrets patient abuse a chilling conspiracy...and enemies willing to kill to keep their secrets buried.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But exposing the truth could cost more than her freedom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It could cost her life.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Asylum Murders</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the second Lady Black mystery-a richly layered historical thriller where madness masks murder and justice must be stolen from those who believe themselves untouchable.</span></p>