Category Archives: Peacock, Caro (Gillian Linscott)
Friends In High Places by Caro Peacock
‘Friends in High Places’ is the 7th novel in Caro Peacock’s Liberty Lane series featuring the young female private detective. It is 1840 and Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the Emperor, has just failed in an attempt to seize … Continue reading
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The Path of the Wicked by Caro Peacock
‘The Path of the Wicked’ is the 6th novel in Caro Peacock’s Liberty Lane series, featuring the young, female, Victorian private investigator Liberty Lane. When Liberty receives a summons from her friend and often employer Disraeli, she is looking forward … Continue reading
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Keeping Bad Company by Caro Peacock
‘Keeping Bad Company’ is the 5th novel in the Liberty Lane series by Caro Peacock. Liberty Lane is a Private Investigator in early Victorian London. Liberty is carrying out an assignment at a diplomatic gathering when her work is rudely … Continue reading
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When The Devil Drives by Caro Peacock
‘When the Devil Drives’ is the 4th novel by Caro Peacock (Gillian Linscott) featuring the Victorian London PI Liberty Lane. Liberty is still establishing her investigation business and wondering where the money will come from to pay the rent when … Continue reading
A Corpse in Shining Armour/ Family Affair by Caro Peacock
‘A Corpse in Shining Armour/ A Family Affair’ is the 3rd novel in Caro Peacock’s Liberty Lane Victorian mystery series. Once again this novel has a different title depending on where in the world you live. Lord Brinkburn has been … Continue reading
Death of a Dancer/ A Dangerous Affair by Caro Peacock
‘Death of a Dancer/ A Dangerous Affair’ is Caro Peacock’s second book featuring the young female Victorian sleuth Liberty Lane. I found the first book – ‘Death At Dawn/ A Foreign Affair’ a bit light, but this book seemed to … Continue reading
Gillian Linscott Profile and Books
Gillian Linscott is a British author who also writes under the name Caro Peacock. She was born in 1944 in Windsor, England. Her father managed a store and her mother was a shop assistant. She studied English and Literature at … Continue reading
Death at Dawn by Caro Peacock
This book is also published as ‘A Foreign Affair’. Gillian Linscott became well known in the 1990s and early 2000s for her brilliant series of books featuring the character Nell Bray. Now writing as Caro Peacock she has produced a … Continue reading