The Tiger in the Well: A Sally Lockhart Mystery (Paperback)

The Tiger in the Well is an exciting and suspenseful book about a young Victorian lady called Sally Lockhart and her child Harriet.

Sally Lockhart is a very successful businesswoman who owns a financial consultant agency but who is also a loving mother to her daughter Harriet.

The story takes place in Victorian England in the late 1800's after the unexpected death of Harriet's father. Sally has just settled into her lovely house when un unexpected visitor shows up with some papers that claim that sally is married to someone who she has never herd of before.

I think that the Tiger in the Well book defiantly deserves 5 stars because anyone could read it and love it anywhere between the ages of 10 and 1,000000000000000000000000etc... it also includes a ton of suspense in some places where it gets to the point when you have to put the book down and go do something else for a while, I mean there are points where you think that the main character will die!! One thing I have to make clear is be sure to read the first two books "the Ruby in the smoke" and "the Shadow in the North" before you read this one!!! This book was defiantly the BEST book that I have ever read!!

So be sure to put this book on your must read NOW list!!! Don't just say that you will read it PLEASE read it now.

The Tiger in the Well is a gripping, fantasy about Sally Lockhart and her young girl Harriet.
Sally Lockhart unlike most Victorian women of her time was a successful businesswoman and loving mother.
But one lovely day while sitting in there garden Harriet, Sally, and all the inhabitants of the house are greeted by an seemingly ordinary man in a brown bowler hat and coat. He brings news of the most unusual, and unfortunate news. (Not to say surprising as well.) A man named Mr. Parrish, someone sally has never heard of, is claiming to be not only her husband, but Harriet's father as well!
Sally is very surprised, for her fiancé, and Harriet's father had died before Sally got married, or Harriet was born.
Sally then becomes involved in a desperate chase to find the truth. Is this the truth? Has she forgotten this large part of her life? Or is someone just trying to lure her into thinking that?
She is "proven" guilty in the courts, and goes into hiding to keep away from Mr. Parrish, and his thugs.
She meets many interesting people, and does many interesting things in her journey, but in the end it all comes down to one man. Known to people as many different things, and has been known to sally as two different men, but he is the key to it all. And his goal in life is to demolish Sally's entire world...