Portrait of Peril

Portrait of Peril is the 25th novel written by Laura Joh Rowland and the fifth entry in the Sarah Bain series. It was released on January 12, 2021 by Crooked Lane Books.
== Synopsis ==
"London, October 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain is overjoyed to marry her beloved Detective Sergeant Barrett-- but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of the church. Not every newlywed couple begins their marriage with a murder investigation, but Sarah and Barrett, along with their friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly, take the case.
The dead man is Charles Firth, whose profession is "spirit photography"-- photographing the ghosts of the deceased. When Sarah develops the photographs he took in the church, she discovers one with a pale, blurred figure attacking the victim. The city's spiritualist community believes the church is haunted and the figure is a ghost. But Sarah is a skeptic, and she and her friends soon learn that the victim had plenty of enemies in the human world--including a scientist who studies supernatural phenomena, his psychic daughter, and an heiress on a campaign to debunk spiritualism and expose fraudulent mediums.
In the tunnels beneath a demolished jail, a ghost-hunting expedition ends with a new murder, and new suspects. While Sarah searches for the truth about both crimes, she travels a dark, twisted path into her own family's sordid history. Her long lost father is the prime suspect in a cold-case murder, and her reunion with him proves that even the most determined skeptic can be haunted by ghosts from the past."
== Dedication ==
"To my readers, who have supported and sustained my writing for all these years. Thank you."
== Plot ==
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=== Epilogue ===
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== Character Appearances ==
=== Debut ===
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=== Reoccurring ===
* Sarah Bain
* Lord Hugh Staunton
* Mick O'Reilly
* Dectective Sergeant Thomas Barrett
* Sally Albert
* Catherine Price
== Character Deaths ==
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== Locations ==
* London
* Whitechapell
== Cover Gallery ==
Peril Cover 1.jpg|2021 First edition (English)
== Trivia ==
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