{"product_id":"9781639106660","title":"A Collection of Lies","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Connie Berry’s fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton follows bloodstained clues to discover the truth about the murder of a modern-day Victorian gentleman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on Dartmoor will be the centerpiece of a new historic crimes exhibit—exactly Kate’s kind of mystery. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring the man who donated the dress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe injured donor, Gideon Littlejohn, is a cyber-security expert who lives and dresses as a Victorian gentleman, but everyone believes the real target of the attack to be another attendee—a controversial politician intent on rooting out local corruption. This belief is overturned when Gideon is found dead in a pool of blood. But then the politician receives a death threat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho was the real target? Who would want to kill both a man with an obsession for history and a tough-on-crime politician? When asked to assist in the investigation, Kate races to discover the truth as it becomes clear the killer isn’t going to come quietly.","brand":"Connie Berry","offers":[{"title":"CROOKED LANE BOOKS |  Hardback  |  2024-06-18","offer_id":44663133208831,"sku":"9781639106660","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_276af06c-b1ae-475f-8795-b77c98e86aca.jpg?v=1704533226","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781639106660","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}