New editions of the first three Sarah Tolerance mysteries. Each is revised, with a new essay about the influences and history in the series, and each has a beautiful new cover by Lyn Forester.
And in October? The release of a NEW Sarah Tolerance mystery, The Doxies Penalty!
Point of Honour
In an English Regency that is not quite our own, one Fallen Woman is determined to avoid the expected fate of her kind. Rather than become a concubine or whore, Sarah Tolerance uses her skills to forge a unique employment. She becomes an Agent of Inquiry, ferreting out secrets, finding what is lost, floating between the layers of London society. Miss Tolerance is a swordswoman, an investigator, a woman of honor in a world that is determined to put her to the test.
In Point of Honour a client comes to her with a seemingly innocuous request: find an antique fan. But pursuing the fan will lead her into a maze of politics, sex, and lies in the mean streets of Regency London.
Politics, deception, danger, and a bit of romance all come together beautifully in this superb debut.
—Booklist
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Petty Treason
Miss Sarah Tolerance must find out who killed the Chevalier d’Aubigny? The French émigré was beaten to death in his own bedchamber, windows and doors sealed tight.
But the Chevalier had more enemies than he had friends, and even his friends had cause to wish him dead. Miss Tolerance’s search takes her from the lowest brothels of the seedy London underworld, where men go to indulge their more aggressive desires, to secrets hidden within the Royal Family…
“Sarah Tolerance is a sword-master sleuth in a gentleman’s world and she is cool, clever and totally fabulous.”
—Alison Goodman, bestselling author of The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Sarah may be a ‘Fallen Woman,’ but she’s also clever, resourceful and highly capable with a sword. She is so well realized that we accept the conceit of a female sleuth–a liberated Elizabeth Bennett, as it were–who fences, wears men’s clothing and lives behind her aunt’s brothel. [A] most pleasing and agreeable series.
—Publishers Weekly
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The Sleeping Partner
Asked by a Lady of Quality to find her missing sister, Miss Tolerance can’t say no. The girl has vanished from under her family’s roof, apparently bent on elopement with a mysterious stranger.
Haunted by the similarities between this girl’s story and her own, Miss Tolerance has little to go on, only an assumed name and a small portrait. And—despite her client’s anxiety–Miss Tolerance soon discovers there are people who would do anything to see the girl never returns home.
As she digs further the mystery surrounding the young woman—so like and yet unlike herself—forces Miss Tolerance to confront her own past, and to question what her future may hold…
“I fell in love with Sarah Tolerance from the moment she picked up a sword. The Sleeping Partner hits all the sweet spots for me, mystery, manners, and mayhem with time for a cup of tea. The fact that the novel is set in an exhaustively researched alternate Regency, just makes it all the more enticing.”
—Mary Robinette Kowal
“Sarah Tolerance moves through her alternate-Regency London with style and skill—just the way her creator writes. A new Madeleine Robins novel? Let the rejoicing—and reading—begin!”
—Emma Bull
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The Doxies Penalty
When a fallen woman’s life savings are stolen, Miss Tolerance is asked to find the culprit. But what begins as a simple case of swindled funds soon turns to murder.
As the investigation twists, and more bodies are discovered, Miss Tolerance and her friend and erstwhile suitor, the magistrate Sir Walter Mandif, find themselves untangling a web of passion, deception, and madness…
“Twisty and spirited, a hardboiled regency with a fencing master’s sense of feint and misdirection…”
– Max Gladstone
“An entertaining and subversive take on the English Regency with a heroine I’d definitely want on my side.”
—Darcie Wilde, bestselling author of the Useful Woman mysteries
“A book with a clever plot, a character with enormous charm, mystery, history and a bit of romance, all in one delightful read. Whether you’ve met Sarah Tolerance before or are only meeting her now, she reliably delivers the goods.”
—Karen Joy Fowler, Author of Booth
“I love hanging out with Fallen Woman Sarah Tolerance, Regency P.I. She’s tough and cool and smart and secretly kind. She takes me all over Regency London at a level of crystalline detail … And her author sure knows how to spin a plot!”
— Ellen Kushner, author of the Swordspoint series
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