Critics have lauded Cordelia Frances Biddle's historical series featuring heiress Martha Beale. The indomitable heroine returns in Without Fear when a decapitated corpse is discovered at Joseph Bonaparte's palatial estate near Philadelphia. A vanished wife, a former actress with an agonizing secret, and a mill worker accused of murder reveal the dark and convoluted connections between wealth and poverty, and the tenuous link between grief and joy.
Cordelia Frances Biddle is the author of the IMBA bestsellers THE CONJURER and DECEPTION'S DAUGHTER, the two previous novels in the Martha Beale series of Victorian mysteries. WITHOUT FEAR is the third novel to feature the heiress, Martha Beale. Cordelia Biddle is also the author of BENEATH THE WIND, and co-author of the Nero Blanc CROSSWORD MYSTERY SERIES.