| Note |
"A novel"--Cover. |
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Thousands of miles from hope, what would you do to survive? --Cover. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references (page 323). |
| Summary |
"Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world. They're daughters, sisters, mothers--and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of them has a deadly secret, and will do anything to flee justice. As the Rajah sails farther from land, the women forge a tenuous kinship. Until, in the middle of the cold and unforgiving sea, a young mother is mortally wounded, and the hunt is on to find the assailant before he or she strikes again. Each woman called in for question has something to fear: Will she be attacked next? Will she be believed? Because far from land, there isn't anywhere to flee-and how can you prove your innocence when you've already been found guilty? From debut author Hope Adams comes a thrilling novel based on the 1841 voyage of the convict ship Rajah, about confinement, hope, and the terrible things we do to survive"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Other edition |
Online version: Adams, Hope, 1944- Dangerous women New York : Berkley, [2021] 9780593099599. |
| Subject |
Women prisoners -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Sea fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780593099575
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0593099575
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