TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berry,Connie
TI  - A collection of lies
T2  - Kate Hamilton mysteries
SN  - 9781639106660
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crooked Lane
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Antique dealers
KW  - Lace makers
KW  - Dresses
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - Kate Hamilton and her new husband try to uncover the provenance of a bloodstained dress purported to belong to a Victorian lace maker accused of murder; In USA Today bestselling author Connie Berry's fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton follows bloodstained clues to discover the truth about the murder of a modern-day Victorian gentleman. As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on Dartmoor will be the centerpiece of a new historic crimes exhibit--exactly Kate's kind of mystery. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring the man who donated the dress. The injured donor, Gideon Littlejohn, is a cybersecurity expert who lives and dresses as a Victorian gentleman, but everyone believes the real target of the attack to be another attendee--a controversial politician intent on rooting out local corruption. This belief is overturned when Gideon is found dead in a pool of blood. But then the politician receives a death threat. Who was the real target? Who would want to kill both a man with an obsession for history and a tough-on-crime politician? When asked to assist in the investigation, Kate races to discover the truth, as it becomes clear the killer isn't going to come quietly
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