WHO KILLED LADY PIPPA?

Oxford, 1890.

Beneath the wavering glow of gaslight, whispers coil through ancient colleges and fog-choked lanes. Whispers of a murder no one can explain.

Lady Pippa Hastings stands accused of killing a young man in a locked room — the evidence as damning as it is impossible. The gallows await.

But years in the future, a single discovery will cast doubt on everything.

Katie Lennox makes the only choice that matters: travel back through the London Stone, a Druidic portal binding past and present, and save Lady Pippa before history seals her fate. In a city steeped in secrets, she joins forces with brilliant Oxford scholar Henry Merrivale and sharp-witted Cockney lad Toby Becket. Together, they must untangle vanishing killers, sealed chambers, and crimes that defy reason — as the shadow of the notorious Demon Duchess of Devon looms ever closer.

Every revelation leads deeper into a labyrinth where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted.

The clock is ticking. The noose is waiting.

Can Katie outwit a perfect killer — before history claims another innocent life? Find out in the thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Ripped!

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“A fantastic time-traveling adventure into Victorian England.” 

~ Robin Cook, #1 New York Times bestselling author of forty international bestsellers

"Lean back in your chair with a glass of sherry or other tipple to travel back in time to 1890 with Shelly Dickson Carr’s Katie Lennox, a feisty modern heroine bent on the impossible—altering the past to save a life. Follow her as she navigates Victorian Oxford, realistically described with its often unsavory sights, sounds and smells, to unmask the killer. This complex locked room mystery, an adept homage to her illustrious grandfather, will have you on the edge of that chair and reaching for the decanter. Katie alone is worth the journey—her retort to the misogynist Professor Driglainey about the root of all terror is brilliant. And her last two sentences at the end of the book leave us eagerly awaiting the third in this terrific series!" 

~ Katherine Hall Page, Mystery Writer of America's 2024 Grand Master

"With a pinch of Outlander, a large dollop of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and seasoned thoroughly with a cast of amusing and vividly drawn characters, Shelly Dickson Carr has cooked up a highly entertaining late-Victorian-era mystery." 

~ Dave Zeltserman, 2026 Edgar Award-winner for Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush