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Description

When you are a prisoner of your secrets, the death of shame is the only path to liberty.

Annabel Banks was promised work as a maid with a prestigious Edinburgh
family. But on her first day, she’s nowhere to be found. Concerned relatives
contact Sarah Fisher to help. Sarah might know her way around the city – its
light sides and dark – but soon she’ll discover the plight of dozens of girls
ensnared in its many brothels: lured, abused and left ruined in the eyes of the world.

Meanwhile, a prominent society figure throws himself from the Scott
Monument. Will Raven is asked to establish whether the death was suicide
or if someone else was involved.

Drawing upon real historical events, The Death of Shame takes the Raven and Fisher series into a treacherous labyrinth of shame and the pitfalls of a culture obsessed with moral purity.

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