Treacherous Is the Night: The Verity Kent Mysteries #02 (A Verity Kent Mystery #2)

By: Anna Lee Huber

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Synopsis: A London séance sets a lady spy on a deadly mission across Europe in this post-WWI Era mystery by the Daphne Award-winning author of This Side of Murder. Verity Kent can sympathize with those eager to make contact with lost loved ones. After all, she once believed herself a war widow. But now that she&’s discovered Sidney is very much alive, Verity is having enough trouble connecting with her estranged husband, never mind the dead. Still, at a friend&’s behest, Verity attends a séance with a medium claiming to channel sensitive information from a surprising source: a woman Verity once worked with in the Secret Service. Refusing to believe her former colleague is dead—let alone divulging secrets—Verity is determined to uncover the source of the medium&’s top-secret revelation. But her investigation is thwarted when the spiritualist is murdered. As once-trusted Secret Service agents turn their backs on her, Verity heads to war-torn Belgium, with Sidney by her side. But as they draw ever closer to danger, Verity wonders if she&’s about to learn the true meaning of till death do us part. &“Huber combines intricate puzzles with affecting human drama.&”—Publishers Weekly