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M. Louisa Locke
Full Series List in Order
Caelestis
1 - Between Mountain and Sea (Aug-2015)2 - Under Two Moons (Aug-2017)
3 - Through Ddaera's Touch (Sep-2017)
3.5 - Aelwyd: Home (Jun-2020)
4 - Tides of Acerba (May-2023)
A Victorian San Francisco Mystery
0.5 - Madam Sibyl's First Client (Dec-2014)1 - Maids of Misfortune (Dec-2009)
1.5 - Dandy Detects (Sep-2013)
2 - Uneasy Spirits (Oct-2011)
2.5 - The Misses Moffet Mend a Marriage (Sep-2013)
3 - Bloody Lessons (Sep-2013)
3.5 - Mr. Wong Rights a Wrong (Mar-2014)
4 - Deadly Proof (Feb-2015)
4.5 - Violet Vanquishes a Villain (Dec-2015)
5 - Pilfered Promises (Jul-2016)
5.5 - Kathleen Catches a Killer (Nov-2017)
5.6 - Dandy Delivers (May-2018)
6 - Scholarly Pursuits (Mar-2019)
6.5 - Beatrice Bests the Burglars (Nov-2019)
6.6 - Dandy's Discovery (Mar-2020)
7 - Lethal Remedies (May-2020)
7.5 - Mrs. O'Malley's Midnight Mystery (Jun-2020)
7.6 - Tilly Tracks a Thief (Dec-2020)
8 - Entangled Threads (Jan-2022)
8.5 - Mrs. Stein Solves a Crime (Jul-2022)
8.6 - Dandy and the Dognappers (Aug-2023)
Victorian San Francisco Stories (Jun-2014)
Book List in Order: 28 titles
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Maids of Misfortune
- Dec-2009
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It's the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie's husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns...
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Uneasy Spirits
- Oct-2011
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In this sequel to Maids of Misfortune, it is the fall of 1879 and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, has a problem. Despite her growing financial success as the clairvoyant Madam Sibyl, Annie doesn’t believe in the astrology and palmistry h...
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Bloody Lessons
- Sep-2013
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In Bloody Lessons, it's the winter of 1880, and the teachers of San Francisco are under attack: their salaries slashed and their competency and morals questioned in a series of poison pen letters. Annie Fuller, the reluctant clairvoyant, has been cal...
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Dandy Detects
- Sep-2013
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In the fall of 1879, San Francisco swelters under a heat wave while Barbara Hewitt, a reserved school-teacher, uncovers a mystery with the help of her son’s dog, the Boston Terrier, Dandy.This short story, which comes chronologically after Maids of...
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The Misses Moffet Mend a Marriage
- Sep-2013
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This short story, set in 1879 San Francisco, features two elderly dressmakers, Miss Minnie and Miss Millie Moffet, who face a moral dilemma of no small dimensions. They turn for advice to Annie Fuller, a widowed boardinghouse owner who supplements he...
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Mr. Wong Rights a Wrong
- Mar-2014
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Annie Fuller, the young boarding house keeper and reluctant clairvoyant, met the kind, older Chinese servant, Mr. Wong, in the midst of her investigations into a mysterious death in Maids of Misfortune, the first book in Locke’s Victorian San Franc...
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Victorian San Francisco Stories
- Jun-2014
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This is a collection of four short stories from the Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. Madam Sibyl’s First Client was written specifically for this collection and it finds Annie Fuller, the young widowed boarding house keeper, just starting he...
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Madam Sibyl's First Client
- Dec-2014
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This short story, a prequel to Maids of Misfortune, the first book in the Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, finds the young widow, Annie Fuller, meeting her first client as the pretend clairvoyant, Madam Sibyl. If she can’t convince this clie...
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Deadly Proof
- Feb-2015
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FIRST PLACE WINNER OF CHANTICLEER'S 2018 MYSTERY AND MAYHEM HISTORICAL MYSTERY AWARD It’s the summer of 1880, and once again the lovely and inquisitive businesswoman, Annie Fuller, is helping San Francisco lawyer and beau, Nate Dawson, with a troub...
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Between Mountain and Sea
- Aug-2015
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Mei Lin Yu should have been looking forward to the next stage in her life. As a descendant of one of the Founding Families who led the exodus from a dying Earth and now rule New Eden, Mei's choices are endless. But she has never felt part of the Yu F...
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Violet Vanquishes a Villain
- Dec-2015
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In this historical history novella set in August of 1880, Annie and Nate Dawson’s trip down the San Francisco peninsula to San Jose was supposed to be a pleasant romantic interlude and a chance for Annie to get to know Nate’s family better. When ...
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Pilfered Promises
- Jul-2016
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It is the winter of 1880, and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant. And they are looking forward to spen...
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Under Two Moons
- Aug-2017
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Mei Lin Yu, a shy studious young woman from a Founding Family, and Silence, a fierce snowcat running with outlaws, shouldn't have anything in common. But on New Eden, a world where the native Ddaerans have psychic abilities, a world ruled by the F...
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Through Ddaera's Touch
- Sep-2017
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Ddaera, the planet the Founders from Earth call New Eden, changes all she touches, including Mei Lin, the studious daughter of a Founding Family, Silence, a sentient snow cat, and Jaxon, a man displaced by space and time. Can these three find common ...
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Kathleen Catches a Killer
- Nov-2017
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As 1880 comes to a close, the O'Farrell Street boardinghouse servant, Kathleen Hennessey, expects to spend a quiet week while her employers, amateur sleuths Annie and Nate Dawson, are off spending the Christmas holidays with Nate's family. However, w...
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Dandy Delivers
- May-2018
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It's January, 1881, and while the adults in Annie and Nate Dawson's San Francisco O'Farrell Street boardinghouse are busy with their own affairs, two boys and a dog find their own adventure. Ian Hennessey, a poor boy from South of Market, who is t...
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Scholarly Pursuits
- Mar-2019
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“Something is rotten in the state of Berkeley”--1881 Blue and Gold Yearbook, University of California: Berkeley In Scholarly Pursuits, the sixth full-length novel in the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco mystery series, Locke explore...
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Beatrice Bests the Burglars
- Nov-2019
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Beatrice O'Rourke, the O'Farrell Street boardinghouse cook, has the afternoon off. What could possibly go wrong?This short story in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series features one of the most beloved c...
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Dandy's Discovery
- Mar-2020
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Something odd is happening at the O'Farrell Street boardinghouse, and Annie is worried that her new baby might be in danger. But never fear, Dandy, the Boston Terrier, will discover the culprit and all will be well. Dandy's Discovery is a short story...
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Lethal Remedies
- May-2020
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San Francisco 1882: Annie has a problem. She has a beautiful child, a loving husband, a well-run boardinghouse with a supportive circle of friends and family, but she's feeling restless and unhappy. Dr. Charlotte Brown, the doctor who delivered ...
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Aelwyd: Home
- Jun-2020
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In the late 21st century, ten Founding Families fulfilled a nearly century-long plan to escape the dying Earth and travel to the Andromeda galaxy to establish a new society on the planet they named New Eden. One of those first settlers, Kammie Gunthe...
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Mrs. O'Malley's Midnight Mystery
- Jun-2020
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Life in 1881 San Francisco is difficult if you are a poor widow like Mrs. O'Malley, especially when you have seven children and are forced to live in one of the crowded neighborhoods South of Market. Late one night, as she sat at the window of her cr...
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Tilly Tracks a Thief
- Dec-2020
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December 1881, San Francisco: Tilly, the young O'Farrell Street boardinghouse servant, is determined to discover who's stealing from houses in the neighborhood before the thefts ruin the holidays for everyone. This short story in the Victorian S...
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Entangled Threads
- Jan-2022
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Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive. --Sir Walter Scott It is San Francisco in the summer of 1882, and Annie and Nate Dawson have finally found a good balance between the demands of family and work. Nate has an inte...
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Mrs. Stein Solves a Crime
- Jul-2022
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Esther and Herman Stein were the first people to move into Annie Dawson's San Francisco O'Farrell Street boardinghouse and are two of Annie biggest supporters. Yet, Esther has always disapproved of how Annie's work, first as Madam Sibyl and now as a ...
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Tides of Acerba
- May-2023
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Two moons, too many demands, too little time. In this action-adventure, science fiction novel, Mei Lin Yu, the future Promise Keeper, is thrust into a position of power and responsibility she never wanted as she struggles to determine who she can tru...
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Dandy and the Dognappers
- Aug-2023
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It is the fall of 1882, and dogs are disappearing from the streets of San Francisco at an alarming rate. Could they be victims of an over-zealous pound keeper or are they being stolen and then returned for a hefty ransom? Once more, the intrepid Bost...
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Where the Glassflowers Grow
Mabel Yu, one of the Founders of New Eden, had a dream. She wanted to turn the promises of the Paradisi Project into a reality in the western province of Caelestis. To that end, she built Mynyddamore as a place of refuge for the native Ddaerans who l...