A conniving con-woman, an eccentric explorer, & airships!
Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands. Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fan mail, vanishes on the trail of a legendary diamond studded mask. Then the baron's mistress flees too, with a handbag full of stolen jewelry and Maddie's most secret papers. To retrieve them she must catch the first airship out of Egypt, risking recognition at every stage of her continent-hopping quest for the baron's story and the sheer satisfaction of exposing that conniving con-woman!
Prix Aurora finalist 2016
"A jewel of a story filled with delightful surprises"
"Like a delightfully vintage game of Clue... Our Heroine is smart, stylish, and determined."
"Filled with intriguing gadgets, fantastical aircraft, exotic locations, interesting characters and even parasol dueling!"
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Winner of the Canadian Crime Writing Award of Excellence and the Alberta Book of the Year, she's been a finalist for both the Prix Aurora and the UK Debut Dagger. Her short fiction won the Calgary Crime Writers Award, the Bony Pete/Bloody Words award, and was 3x bridesmaid for the Great Canadian Story prize. She lives in a vine-covered cottage between two rivers, keeping cats and secrets. Find her on:
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