Julia Keller Launches First of New Historical Mystery Series!

New historical series by the acclaimed novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is set in Georgian London!
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Join Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the launch of , the first of a series of historical mysteries featuring Sarah Fielding, an 18th century British writer who becomes an unlikely force for social justice. Refreshments will be available: specially themed “Cold Dark Deep” cookies!

A child condemned to death . . .

A villain who preys upon the lost and the innocent . . .

A struggling writer whose passion for justice leads her into mortal peril . . .

In 1750 London, as Westminster Bridge nears completion, the crowded streets are aswirl with color -- and haunted by a mysterious evil.

Enter Sarah Fielding, sister of the famous novelist Henry Fielding, who vows to save a young girl from the gallows. Along the way, she helps to create the world's first true police force, one that serves everyone -- not simply the wealthy. Sarah, a writer herself, is brilliant -- but broke. Ahead of her time, but behind on her rent.

And now, as an amateur sleuth, she dives into a desperate quest to expose the ghastly secret that lies buried within the cold depths of the river -- and in the black heart of a monster.

Julia Keller earned a Ph.D. in English Literature at Ohio State University and has taught at Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Julia was chief literary critic and staff writer at the Chicago Tribune, where she won the paper's first Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. She is the author of an eight-volume mystery series; a science fiction trilogy for young adults; a biography of Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun; and Quitting, an argument for the limits of perseverance. Julia has contributed many on-air essays to The NewsHour on PBS and NPR’s All Things Considered and delivered a TEDx talk.