The Lion's Courtship

Anna Kronberg lives in the worst rookery of Victorian London, offering medical treatment to prostitutes, vagrants and criminals. Plugging holes and mopping up blood is normal work to her. Stitching the slashed face of a young prostitute is not.

Witnesses refuse to talk, and the police cannot be bothered with another injured woman from St Giles. But whispers spread of a man who pays well for a few harmless knife marks, and no one dares name him. Only Garret O'Hare — a thief Anna barely knows — reluctantly agrees to help her investigate the assault.

Part crime novel and part romance, The Lion's Courtship covers the first meeting of Anna Kronberg and Garret O'Hare, and belongs to Annelie Wendeberg's Anna Kronberg series of dark Victorian mysteries.