Now they must identify the killer before they find themselves headed for the gallows. Suddenly, Sarah, her motley crew of friends, and her fiancé Detective Sergeant Barrett are on the wrong side of the law. Sarah is delighted to reunite a family and send Sleeping Beauty home-until one of the claimants is murdered. But she recognizes one of the people who've claimed her. She's forgotten her name and everything else about herself. Series Sano Ichiro Mysteries Series author: Laura Joh Rowland 18 Works Popularity 5,360 (1,703 Members) 5,604 Books 85 Reviews ½ 3. Then Sleeping Beauty awakens-with a severe case of amnesia. Which party is Sleeping Beauty's rightful kin? Is someone among them her would-be killer? The case of "Sleeping Beauty" becomes a public sensation, and three parties quickly come forward to identify her: a rich, sinister artist who claims she's his wife a mother and her two daughters who co-own a nursing home and claim she's their stepdaughter/sister and a precocious little girl who claims Sleeping Beauty is her mother. But as Sarah takes photographs, she discovers that the woman is still alive. The murder victim is an unidentified woman whose face has been slashed. On a foggy summer night, they're called to the bank of the river Thames.
After solving a sensational murder, they're under pressure to deliver another big story. Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly are crime scene photographers for the Daily World newspaper. Award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland is back with the fourth in her critically acclaimed Victorian mysteries where the case of a mutilated "Sleeping Beauty" washes ashore in London.
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