The Variety Palace Music Hall is in trouble, due in no small part to a gruesome spate of murders that unfolded around it a few months previously. Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissuade her boss from installing a water tank in the building, Minnie Ward has her hands full. Her complicated relationship with detective Albert Easterbrook doesn’t even bear thinking about. But when a performer’s brother mysteriously goes missing, Minnie and Albert are thrown together once...

**Return to the musical halls of Victorian London in this 2nd Variety Palace historical murder mystery “rich with theatrical detail and . . . brilliant characters” (SJ Bennett, author of Murder Most Royal)Perfect for fans of Karen Odden's AN ARTFUL DODGE“Triumphant . . . Vivid period detail, clever plotting, and thoughtful characterizations. This series merits a long run” — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review**Still reeling from the gruesome...

**The 1st in an award-winning series of thrilling historical murder mysteries, set in the Victorian London music hall scene and the bustling world of vaudevillePerfect for fans of Karen Odden's AN ARTFUL DODGE“Walsh’s rich and nuanced portrayal of the period will leave readers feeling like they're on the soggy streets of London . . . Un-put-downable.” — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review**1876, Victorian London’s West EndThe feisty Minnie Wa...

1879, Victorian London. Tragedy strikes Minnie Ward's beloved Variety Palace Theatre when a man is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Along with private detective Albert Easterbrook, she investigates. The trail leads them from the streets of London to a grand country house in the Suffolk countryside, home of the shadowy Spirit Sisterhood, who promise their clients an audience with the deceased. Minnie isn't buying it. She goes undercover within the Sisterhood and enters an eerie world...

Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination? In her analysis of literary and cultural representations of this phenomenon across genres, Bridget Walsh traces how the perception of the domestic murderer changed across the nineteenth century and suggests ways in which the public appetite for such crimes was representative of wider social concerns. She argues that the portrayal of domestic murder did not signal a consensus of opinion regarding the domestic space, but rather...

1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, the feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice, even though he already has his hands full trying to catch the notorious Hairpin Killer. Together they navigate London, from its high-class clubs to its murky underbelly. But as the bodies pile up, Albert's burgeoning feelings for his amateur partne...

**Perfect for fans of Karen Odden's AN ARTFUL DODGEA witty, propulsive historical murder mystery investigating a secretive spiritualist cult in Victorian London—and the 3rd stand-alone installment in the beloved Variety Palace Mysteries series!“Splendid.” - Wall Street Journal**1879, Victorian London.Tea room sting operations, seedy music hall secrets, elaborate disguises, and slow-burn romance…Detective duo Minnie Ward and...

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline philosophy and content. In this essential guide, Walsh and Mortensen propose that alignment with Family Life Education’s (FLE) strengths-based methodology results in greater consistency through a model of prevention, education, and collaboration with families.This text is the first to outline linkages between FLE and EHS home visiting. It ex...

Now in its second edition, Introduction to Human Development and Family Science was the first text to introduce human development and family studies (HDFS) as inextricably linked areas of study. Pioneers of research paradigms have acknowledged that the family is one setting in which human development occurs, and much work is inherently multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. This book helps to fortify an understanding of HDFS and subareas within it.Key features include:

Four more series of the popular panel show, in which celebrity guests donate an exhibit of their choice to an infinite imaginary museumJoin eminent Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and distinguished Curators Lee Mack, Bridget Christie, Alice Levine and Holly Walsh, as they source more strange and wondrous objects to fill Galleries 13 to 16 of the ever-expanding comedy edifice.Adding to the display cases and plumping up the plinths are a host of illustrious...

The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The expert authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.Featuring a who’s who of more than 25 inte...

A MISSING TEENAGER. A CITY FULL OF SECRETS...When the daughter of the Swedish Ambassador disappears from her prestigious London school in broad daylight, the authorities are on high alert. There are no witnesses and no ransom demand: thirteen-year-old Freya Sjöberg has vanished into thin air.With the Metropolitan Police out of their depth, specialist agent DS Madeleine Farrow is called in to handle the case. As a former pupil at Wimpole Girls, she knows the...