The Body At The Tower, A Mary Quinn mystery : The Agency, bk 2

mary’s Second Adventure As An Undercover Agent Forces Her To Relive Some Harrowing Childhood Experiences As She Seeks The Identity Of A Murderer. mary Quinn Is Back, Now A Trusted Member Of The Agency, The All-female Detective Unit Operating Out Of Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy For Girls. Her New Assignment Sends Her Into The Grimy Underbelly Of Victorian London Dressed As A Poor Boy, Evoking Her Own Childhood Memories Of Fear, Hunger, And Constant Want. As She Insinuates Herself Into The Confidence Of Several Persons Of Interest, She Encounters Others In Desperate Situations And Struggles To Make A Difference Without Exposing —or Losing —her Identity. Mary’s Adventure, Which Takes Place On The Building Site Of The Clock Tower Of The Houses Of Parliament, Offers A Fictional Window Into A Fascinating Historical Time And Place. the Barnes & Noble Review a Spy In The House , The First Of Y.s. Lee's The Agency Novels, Is Pure Confection, An Historical Romp Through England At The Height Of The Great Stink That Imagines A Secret Spy Ring For Women Tucked Away Where Few Notice But Powerful Factions Clamor For Their Services. Mary Quinn Was Rescued From The Gallows At The Age Of Twelve, Allowed To Grow Up In The Agency's Cover, Aka Miss Scrimshaw's School For Girls, And At Seventeen, Is Tasked With Her First Assignment: Disguise Herself As A Lady's Companion And Determine The Whereabouts Of A Rich Merchant's Missing Cargo Ships. With Pacing Con Brio And A Perpetual Sense Of Fun, Lee Evokes The Sights, Sounds And Smells Of Victorian London And Creates, In Mary, A Capable Heroine Prepared For Almost Anything, Even Budding Romance With A Young Engineer - But Not For Jarring Reminders Of Her True, Mixed-race Heritage And The Key To Her Permanent Belief She Will Never Belong In Either World. Lee Returns To This Theme Of Displacement In the Body At The Tower , The Even-better Second Volume That Will Be Published In August. Mary Is A Year Older, More Experienced, Yet Still Vulnerable, Prone To Mistakes And In Much Need Of All Her Wits And Years Of Espionage Training. The Capper To The Trilogy Can't Come Fast Enough -- And Will Cause Great Sadness When It Brings An End To This Exciting Series. --sarah Weinman Now nearly a full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn is back for another action-packed adventure. Disguised as a poor apprentice builder and a boy, she must brave the grimy underbelly of Victorian London - as well as childhood fear, hunger, and constant want - to unmask the identity of a murderer. Assigned to monitor a building site on the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, Mary earns the confidence of the work crew, inching ever nearer her suspect. But if an irresistible desire to help the city's needy doesn't distract her and jeopardize her cover, unexpectedly meeting up with an old friend - or flame - just might. A suspenseful and evocative window into a fascinating moment in history, The Body at the Tower is the much-anticipated second outing with a daring young detective. Mary’s second adventure as an undercover agent forces her to relive some harrowing childhood experiences as she seeks the identity of a murderer. Mary Quinn’s new assignment sends her into the building site of the clock tower for the Houses of Parliament dressed as an impoverished young boy, evoking her own childhood memories of fear, hunger, and constant want. As she insinuates herself into the confidence of several persons of interest, she encounters others in desperate situations and struggles to make a difference without exposing — or losing — her identity. Mary’s second adventure offers a fictional window into the fascinating, if grimy, underbelly of Victorian London. As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.