A Tale of Two Murders by Heather Redmond

Readers interested in fictional depictions of Dickens that insert him into a mystery plot will be better served by such books by Dan Simmons and William Palmer. Redmond’s opening line (“‘Epiphany is truly the best of times,’ Charles Dickens exclaimed”) sets the tone, and she makes sporadic efforts to evoke Dickens’s style throughout. His unimpressive probing, aided by Kate, yields multiple suspects with motives including hatred and greed. When the reporter learns that 17-year-old Marie Rueff died under similar circumstances exactly a year earlier, he suspects foul play and investigates the possibility that both were poisoned. certain prisoner who appears in Dickenss 1859 novel A TALE OF TWO CITIES.

A dinner at the home of his editor, George Hogarth, is interrupted by a scream from a neighboring house, where Dickens and George’s fetching daughter, Kate, find that 17-year-old Christiana Lugoson has suffered a collapse that will soon prove fatal. The fourth installment of Heather Redmonds Charles Dickens murder mysteries. A Tale of Two Murders A Dickens of a Crime Series, Book 1 By: Heather Redmond Narrated by: Tim Campbell Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins 4.1 (76 ratings) Try for 0. Set in 1835, this languid series launch from Redmond (the Redcakes series) turns Charles Dickens, then a journalist for the Evening Chronicle, into a detective with mixed results.

A Tale of Two Murders by Heather Redmond