"The Alchemy of Murder is imaginative, original and wonderful..."
Mary Jane Clark, New York Times bestselling author
The Alchemy of Murder is a finalist for the International CrimeFest Sony Award.
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... McCleary has written a book that just can't have enough superlatives attached to it. I'd heard of Nellie Bly, of course, but I hadn't really given much thought to what it must have been like for her to set an example and open the way for other women to move into journalism. McCleary gives life to this historical figure while keeping her human with all the worries, woes, joys, and frustrations of a woman of her times ... Without Bly and her efforts, many of the women journalists that exist today might have had an even more difficult time moving into highly visible positions in journalism...If this book isn't nominated for several awards over the coming year, I'll be extremely surprised.
Review by Gayle Surrette at Gumshoe Review.com
"Dazzling entertainment..."
William Martin, New York Times bestselling author
History, Mystery, Science and Murder . . .
Intrepid Nellie Bly, the world's first female crime reporter, follows a bloody trail of murder from a New York madhouse to a world's fair in Paris.
As she untangles a web of puzzling murders and science gone mad, she finds herself in a hostile city, on the run from both the police and killers.
Recruiting a reluctant Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, flamboyant Oscar Wilde, the prince of cafe society, and a doubtful Louis Pasteur, the great "microbe hunter," Nelllie focuses "high tech" Victorian Age science on a conspiracy that is both criminally ingenious and preternaturally evil.
"A wonderful evocation of Paris in the late 1880's . . . strong, smart, and believable . . . this is a book for everybody."
Barbara D'Amato, Mary Higgins Clark Award winner, past
president of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in
Crime International
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