This keeps throwing Francesca in the socially unacceptable path of New York's Police Commissioner, Rick Bragg. Eventually, her mother might change her mind when a neighbour's child comes up missing. She would rather spend time and energy participating in organizations that fix societal ills. Her mother Julia worries that unlike the other women in the family, she has absolutely no interest in the social whirl or snagging a husband. Francesca is the beautiful, but secret bluestocking daughter of 1900's industrialist Andrew Cahill.

This book was a departure from her more well known historical romance novels. This is the first book in Brenda Joyce's Francesca Cahill mystery series. I read this a long time ago, and discovered a few significant forgotten plot points. As the duo is plunged into a web of corruption, secrets, and lies, Francesca's own life begins to slowly but surely unravel-until a series of stunning truths are revealed, each taking her more deeply into the heart of true danger and even truer passion. Determined to help in any way she can, Francesca soon is involved in the high profile police investigation-while helpelessly falling in love with New York City's newly appointed police commissioner, the powerful and enigmatic Rick Bragg.įrancesca and Bragg begin to search for the answers to a shocking crime. And Francesca Cahill, the daughter of the soiree's host, stumbles across the ransom note. One cold winter night, a little boy is kidnapped from his own bed while his parents attend a neighbor's elegant ball. It is a time of glamour and wealth-scandal and corruption. It is a world of huge mansions and society balls, but only footsteps away are the city's darkest back alleyways. But little does she know that on this singular night, his life will change forever.Ĭome back in time to the lost, magical world of turn-of-the-century New York City - where the glittering mansions of society's elite are only footsteps away from the impoverished back alleys of the city's underbelly - and into the heart of true danger and even truer passion.The year is 1902. And Fracesca can no more stay out of this investigation than she can stop herself from falling love with the city's determined and powerful police commissioner. Francesca stumbles across the ransom note just as she meets New York City's newly appointed police commissioner, Rick Bragg.

She refuses to bow to convention, wears her heart on her sleeve, and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society.ĭeadly Love begins Francesca's mad escapades when the neighbors' little boy is kidnapped right out of his bed during a society ball. Welcome to the world of Francesca Cahill, crime-solver extraordinaire.

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Deadly Love by Brenda Joyce