Shrouded in Thought: Victorian Chicago Mysteries #2 (GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES) - Tapa blanda

Nominated for a Reader's Choice Award as Best Historical Mystery and for a Lovey Award as Best Traditional Amateur Sleuth (LIM, February 2005) For Fans of Cozy Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, and Gilded Age Chicago HistoryVICTORIAN CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. It rivals New York as the City of the Century and the epitome of the Gilded Age. This melting pot of thieves and corrupt politicians, robber barons and immigrants, is rife with scandal and social injustice. An eccentric heiress and a cub reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City.Volume 2 - Shrouded in ThoughtWhen rookie journalist Freddie Simpson is sent to cover the accidental drowning of a factory girl, it takes only minutes to convince him it was murder instead. Freddie teams up to sleuth with his friend Evangeline when his prime suspect is also suspected of poisoning her neighbor. For the two amateur detectives, a random drowning becomes intertwined with labor riots, a national railroad strike, a medium who speaks to the dead, a blackmailer, and a murderer intent on covering his tracks by any means necessary. In SHROUDED IN THOUGHT, a killer learns he can outrun everything except the ghosts of his own past.

Nancy Wikarski is a fugitive from academia. After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, she became a computer consultant and then turned to historical mystery and adventure fiction writing. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Society of Midland Authors, and has served as vice president of Sisters in Crime - Twin Cities and on the programming board of the Chicago Chapter. Her short stories have appeared in Futures Magazine and DIME Anthology while her book reviews have been featured in Murder: Past Tense and Deadly Pleasures. She has written the Victorian Chicago Mystery Series set in 1890s Chicago. Titles include The Fall of White City (2002) and Shrouded in Thought (2005). The series has received People's Choice Award nominations for Best First Novel and Best Historical as well as a Lovey Award for Best Traditional Amateur Sleuth. Her seven-book Arkana Archaeology Mystery Series is an Amazon bestseller. Titles include The Granite Key (2011), The Mountain Mother Cipher (2011), The Dragon's Wing Enigma (2012), Riddle of the Diamond Dove (2013), Into the Jaws of the Lion (2014), Secrets of the Serpent's Heart (2015),and The Sage Stone Prophecy (2016).