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Queen Victoria still mourning her longdead husband Prince Albert has found solace in John Brown an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to attend one of Mr Browns infamous readings during which he implies that Buckingham Palace will soon be shrouded in deaths dark veil Well acquainted with death Violet shrugs him off as a charlatanuntil his sinister divinations begin to prove true
Violet wonders if something foul is in the cards when the aristocratic young friends of the queens daughter begin to die under mysterious circumstances Her suspicions only grow when one of Londons moralists a group bent on repealing the law that forces prostitutes into hospitals suffers a similar fate The deaths merely buttress the queens enthusiasm for Mr Browns ominous talents and concerned by the fortunetellers influence Violet races against time to unearth the truth before the killer strikes again But as she closes in on a murderer with an unearthly motive Violet realizes she may be digging her own grave
By turns heart wrenching and hopeful A Virtuous Death is a gripping tale of fortitude besieged by vengeance inside the extraordinary world of Queen Victorias court
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