The Dastardly Miss Lizzie: An Electric Empire Novel - Softcover

Carr, Viola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062363123 ISBN 13: 9780062363121

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2017

Synopsis

Dr. Eliza Jekyll must turn to her dark side, Miss Lizzie Hyde, to stop a madman who’s targeting London’s most important scientists and sorcerers, terrorizing the city with dark magic, in this third Electric Empire novel—a dazzlingly original steampunk fantasy set in the gritty world of alternate Victorian London, with echoes of H. G. Wells’s classic, The Time Machine.

Being two people in one body isn’t easy. Metropolitan Police crime scene physician Eliza Jekyll is trying to maintain a semblance of control, even as her rebellious second self, Lizzie, grows increasingly wild—threatening the respectable Eliza’s reputation and her marriage to Remy Lafayette, the Royal Society investigator and occasional lycanthrope. With England on the brink of war, Remy’s away in sorcery-riddled Paris on a secretive mission that grows ever more sinister. Has he been an enemy agent all along? Or is coping with her secret divided self finally driving Eliza mad?

Eliza needs her mind clear and sharp if she’s to catch an evil genius who is killing eminent scientists. The chase uncovers a murky world of forbidden books, secret laboratories, and a cabal of fanatical inventors whose work could change the world—or destroy it—and who may hold answers to Eliza’s mysterious past.

As sorcery-wielding terrorists attack London, Eliza discovers her own enemies are closing in, driving her to desperate measures—enlisting the aid of the wily, resourceful, mercurial Lizzie—to thwart the killer. But Lizzie’s got her own life now, and true to her nature, will resort to the devious and diabolical to keep it. Even if it means throwing Eliza to the wolves, and letting the world burn. . . .

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From the Back Cover:

In the stunning conclusion to Viola Carr’s Electric Empire trilogy, Dr. Eliza Jekyll must stop a murderer determined to control a terrifyingly powerful invention, but her other,m darker half, Miss Lizzie Hyde, has plans of her own. . . .

Being two people in one body isn’t easy. Metropolitan Police crime scene physician Eliza Jekyll is trying to maintain a semblance of control, even as her rebellious other self, Lizzie Hyde, grows increasingly wild. With an unstoppable slasher on the loose, a fiancé enmeshed in the dark world of French sorcerers, and an immortal scientist tasking her to heal the dim-witted king, the last thing Eliza needs is for Lizzie to appear and wreak havoc at will.

Eliza needs her mind clear and sharp if she’s to catch the murderer responsible for killing off the city’s most eminent scientists, one by one. At the heart of each death lies clues to a machine that shouldn’t exist, one powerful enough to destroy the world.

But as the mystery begins to unravel, Eliza discovers her own enemies are closing in, driving her to desperate measures in order to thwart the killer. And Lizzie’s no help. She’s got her own life now, and true to her nature, will resort to the devious and the diabolical to keep it. Even if it means throwing Eliza to the wolves, and letting the world burn . . .

About the Author:

Viola Carr is the author of the Electric Empire trilogy. She was born in Australia, but wandered into darkest London one foggy October evening and never found her way out. She now devours countless history books and dictates fantastical novels by gaslight, accompanied by classical music and the snoring of her slumbering cat.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0062363123
• ISBN 13: 9780062363121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464