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Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead partner Prince Albert, has found solace in John Dark brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and continues the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings. Undertaker Violet Harper is asked to wait one of Mr. Brown's infamous readings, during which he implies that Buckingham Palace will soon be shrouded in death's dark veil. Well acquainted with death, Violet shrugs him off as a charlatan - until his sinister divinations get started to show true... Violet magic if something bad is in the credit cards when the aristocratic young friends of the queen's girl begin to pass away under incomprehensible circumstances. Her suspicions only expand when one of London's "moralists", a group bent on repealing the law that makes prostitutes into private hospitals, suffers an identical fate. The fatalities only buttress the queen's enthusiasm for Mr. Brown's ominous talents, and, worried by the fortuneteller's influence, Violet races against time to unearth the truth before the killer hits again. But as she closes in on the murderer with an unearthly purpose, Violet realizes she may be digging her own grave... By turns heartwrenching and hopeful, A Virtuous Death is a gripping tale of fortitude besieged by vengeance inside the extraordinary world of Queen Victoria's court.
