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Tasha AlexanderTasha Alexander

Tasha Alexander is the author of the Lady Emily novels, a series of historical suspense, including Tears of Pearl and A Crimson Warning. She attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all... More

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Set in the lush countryside of Normandy, France, this new novel of suspense featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves is filled with intrigue, romance, mysterious deaths, and madness.

       Returning from her honeymoon with Colin Hargreaves and a near brush with death in Constantinople, Lady Emily convalesces at her mother-in-law’s beautiful estate in Normandy. But the calm she so desperately seeks is shattered when, out riding a horse, she comes upon the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. The girl’s wounds are identical to those inflicted on the victims of Jack the Ripper, who has wreaked havoc across the channel in London. Emily feels a connection to the young woman and is determined to bring the killer to justice.

       Pursuing a trail of clues and victims to the beautiful medieval city of Rouen and a crumbling château in the country, Emily begins to worry about her own sanity: She hears the cries of a little girl she cannot find and discovers blue ribbons left in the child’s wake. As Emily is forced to match wits with a brilliant and manipulative killer, only her courage, keen instincts, and formidable will to win can help her escape becoming his next victim.



1. What did you know about the treatment of madness in the nineteenth century before you started to read Dangerous to Know?

2. How does insanity affect families? Do they still deal with a sense of shame because of madness?

3. Are we, as a society, more enlightened today when it comes to how we judge individuals with mental disorders?

4. Are there some forms of madness that are more socially acceptable than others? If so, why is this?

5. Is there a touch of madness in everyone?

6. Mrs. Hargreaves’s journal entries mark the first time in the series when we see someone else’s view of Emily. Did her observations about her daughter-in-law change your view of Emily?

7. Do you believe it’s possible to drive someone mad?

8. Who was your favorite character in the book, and why?

9. How is Lady Emily different from other woman of her era? Do you think she was “ahead of her time?” What do you see as her most and least admirable qualities? Take a moment to talk about women and their place in Victorian society.

10. How do women, in the past and today, find ways to be independent in restrictive societies?

11. To what extent do you think Tasha Alexander took artistic liberties with this work? What does it take for a novelist to bring a “real” period to life?

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