Monday, March 8, 2021

Six novels based on historical scandals

Deanna Raybourn is the author of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Lady Julia Grey series, currently in development for television, as well as the USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award nominated Veronica Speedwell Mysteries and several standalone works.

Her new Veronica Speedwell mystery is An Unexpected Peril.

At CrimeReads Raybourn tagged six "favorite scandals and the novels that bring them to life." One title on the list:
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron, Stephanie Barron

Few periods in English history were as entertaining as the Regency and few Regency figures were as legendary as Lord Byron. By the time he died at the age of 36, he had dozens of scandals to his credit—love affairs, debaucheries, misbehavior of every sort. In Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron, Stephanie Barron plucks a typical Byronic contretemps (a dead woman in his bedchamber) and gives the sleuthing over to none other than Jane Austen herself.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue