'Dangerous' by Essie Fox - Sprayed Edge Edition

Signed First Edition with Sprayed Edge - Hardback 

When the disgraced Lord Byron is associated with the deaths of women in Venice, he turns detective to unveil the killer and clear his name. A dazzling, riveting historical mystery by the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Fascination.  

‘Brooding and brilliant’ A.J. West  

‘As mesmerising and charismatic as Byron himself can ever have been. Beautifully written, accomplished in its meld of fact and fiction, this is a magnificent gothic tale of scandal, secrets and murder. I was hooked from line one!’ Janice Hallett  

`A plot as labyrinthine as the Venice backstreets, told in dazzling prose; suspenseful, seductive stuff´ Erin Kelly  

`Evokes all the grimy charisma of eighteenth-century Venice and at its brooding heart the flawed yet seductive Byron, enmeshed in a mystery as sinuous as the city's alleys and canals.

I was enthralled´ Elizabeth Fremantle  

When fiction is fatal…  

Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city   But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then a novel called The Vampyre is published under his name, rumours begin to spread that Byron may be the murderer…   As events escalate and tensions rise – and his own life is endangered, as well as those he holds most dear – Byron is forced to play detective, to discover who is really behind these heinous crimes. Meanwhile, the scandals of his own infamous past come back to haunt him…   Rich in gothic atmosphere and drawing on real events and characters from Byron's life, Dangerous is a riveting, dazzling historical thriller, as decadent, dark and seductive as the poet himself…