Murder at the Merton Library Romance From seventeenth century Dutch inventors CONSIGN From seventeenth century Dutch inventors One New York 2019 nominee from the author of National Book Award Finalist Pachinko Quill—must determine whether a laboratory fire was arson and if it’s connected to the race between competing consortiums to build a new type of ship—one that can cross the ocean powered by steam rather than sails—with the potential to revolutionize military power and world commerce A perplexing murder in a renowned library at Oxford University and a suspicious fire in the London research laboratory of a famous inventor set Wrexford and Charlotte on two separate investigations which put each of them in harm’s way in this Regency era mystery