Peril at the Exposition by Nev March. Published in 2022 by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, 10271; website: www.minotaurbooks.com. Pp: 344. Price: US $ 27.99, Can $ 36.99.
In Peril at the Exposition Nev March (pictured) shifts the scene from Bombay, where she had set her first novel Murder in Old Bombay, to Chicago where the World’s Fair was held in 1893. In her Author’s Note she outlines the historical events which framed her novel. Chicago had just recovered from the great fire which took place 20 years earlier and almost half the......