Primeros reseñadoresAmanda Quick

Amanda Quick’s New York Times bestselling romantic suspense novels are rife with steamy passion and intrigue. In Garden of Lies, Ursula Kern, proprietress of the Kern Secretarial Agency, investigates the death of a valued employee. Engaging the help of an unnervingly attractive adventurer, Ursula is drawn into the dark side of polite society—and into an intimacy that may be her undoing. Suspense The New York Times–bestselling author of Otherwise Engaged and The Mystery Woman presents an all-new novel of intrigue and murder set against the backdrop of Victorian London. … The Kern Secretarial Agency provides reliable professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest young women in Ursula Kern’s employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end—and Ursula is convinced it was not due to natural causes. Bent on justice, Ursula hatches a plan: take Anne’s place as stenographer to the reclusive poet Valerie, Lady Fulbrook. There are dark rumors about Lord Fulbrook, and his gloomy mansion in Mapstone Square seems the logical starting point for an undercover investigation. Archaeologist and adventurer Slater Roxton thinks Mrs. Kern is off her head to meddle in such dangerous business. Slater is familiar with mortal peril—some suspect he’s gone a bit mad since the year he spent trapped amid the volcanic rock and jungle of Fever Island, thousands of miles from civilization. Nevertheless, he seems sensible enough to Ursula, though she does find herself unnerved by his self-possession and unreadable green-gold eyes. … If this mysterious widowed beauty insists on stirring the pot, Slater intends to remain close by as they venture into the darker side of polite society and a den of iniquity called the Olympus Club. Together they must reveal the identity of a killer—and to achieve their goal they may need to reveal their deepest secrets to each other as well. …

Miss Amity Doncaster, world traveler, is accustomed to adventure in exotic lands. But one does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight… Trapped in a carriage, blade at her throat, Amity is forced to listen to the most vile taunts and threats, whispered in her ear by the fiend known in the press as the Bridegroom. Her quick thinking, and a secret weapon, save her…for now. But the Bridegroom survives the wounds she inflicts. And, unwholesomely obsessed by her scandalous connection to Benedict Stanbridge—a man of science as well as high rank and wealth—he is determined to recapture his prey. Amity had met Benedict only recently—and under quite dramatic circumstances. She saved him from a near-fatal gunshot and accompanied him aboard a ship bound from the Caribbean to New York City. Somehow, the gossip about their hours alone in his stateroom seems to have crossed the Atlantic faster than any sailing vessel. Benedict, a spy for the Crown as well as a scientist, refuses to let this resourceful lady globetrotter suffer for her romantic link to him—as tenuous as it may be. Both intend to end the Bridegroom’s reign of terror. But those from the best families enjoy special advantages, even when they are killers…

Beatrice Lockwood, one of the intrepid ladies of Lantern Street, is in the middle of a case when her past comes back to haunt her. Joshua North, a former spy for the Crown, has come out of a self-imposed retirement after a disastrous case that left him scarred and forced to use a cane. He is hunting the villain who is blackmailing his sister. The trail leads him to Beatrice who is his chief suspect. But when he realizes that she is not the blackmailer they set out to find the real extortionist. Passion flares between them as they dodge a professional assassin. Meanwhile a mysterious scientist intent on resurrecting his dead lover using an ancient Egyptian formula for preserving the bodies of the dead is also hunting Beatrice. He is keeping his dead love perfectly preserved in a special, crystal-topped sarcophagus filled with the special fluid. But he needs Beatrice's paranormal talent to activate the reviving properties of the preservative in the coffin. Time is running out for everyone involved. The two cases collide at a mysterious country-house filled with artifacts from ancient Egyptian tombs. The drama concludes in the mad scientist's laboratory where Joshua discovers that the past he thought was dead is still very much alive -- sort of.

Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in sneaking past the wall to explore the grounds. And when her life is threatened again, she instinctively goes to the gardens for safety. Lucas Sebastian has never been one to ignore a lady in danger, even if she is trespassing on his property. Quickly disposing of her would-be assassin, he insists they keep the matter private. There are rumors enough already, about treasure buried under his garden, and occult botanical experiments performed by his uncle - who died of mysterious causes. With Evangeline's skill for detection, and Lucas's sense of the criminal mind, they soon discover that they have a common enemy. And as the energy emanating from Crystal Gardens intensifies, they realize that to survive they must unearth what has been buried for too long...