Are missing girls linked to a mysterious séance?

When a nobleman’s daughter goes missing, Elinor Chalamet and Tristain Fontaine, the Duke de Archambeau, must work together to discover who has kidnapped her and why.

Saddled with a bumbling apprentice, a drunk soldier, and a prickly nobleman who won’t explain why he hasn’t paid a proper call, Elinor must decide if the Society is hiding something from her. When the investigation reveals a connection to an old rival, she finds herself going it alone, something Tristan had demanded she not do.

Will her dance with ghosts be a permanent arrangement?

And when Tristan Fontaine discovers her missing, who will be able to face his wrath?

Elinor, a Ghost Talker and medium, has been saddled with a scatterbrained  apprentice, Twyla Andricksson, by the Morpheous Society that trained her.  Elinor often helps the police so the Duke de Archambeau, the King’s investigator, brings his friend Baron Losendahl to her for unofficial help in locating his missing daughter. Ebbe turns out to be just one of several young women who have gone missing recently in the city.  Her supposed suitor gives them a hint of where she might have gone when he describes an unearthly party he attended where the living met with ghosts who were made corporeal in this world. As the investigation continues it brings links to the Morpheous Society as well as the unsolved murder of Elinor’s father and the master criminal the Duke has been hunting.

Again a quick and engrossing read.  We are learning more about Elinor’s father’s murder as well as the death of the Duke’s wife. The budding romance between Elinor and the Duke is still alternating between closeness and overwhelming formality but leaning towards an acknowledgment by both that there is a serious attraction between them.  The world in which this series is set is at once familiar - with similarities to 1900s Europe - and totally alien as science such as fingerprints and psychiatry exists hand-in-hand with the acceptance of ghosts, mediums and the afterlife. I look forward to the next book in this series; which, luckily for me, is loaded on my tablet. Highly recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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