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Title: Without Fear

Author: Cordelia Frances Biddle

Narrator: Dara Rosenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Philadelphia heiress and amateur sleuth Martha Beale investigates the identity of a headless corpse found on Joseph Bonapartes estate in the third novel in acclaimed author Cordelia Frances Biddles Martha Beale Mystery series. With her hands full raising her adopted children and managing her fathers financial empire, Martha Beale is also grieving the loss of her beau. Thomas Kelman, an assistant to the mayor, felt he could never belong in Marthas upper-crust society and has boarded a merchant ship bound for South America. But the grisly discovery of a decapitated corpse on Joseph Bonapartes palatial estate outside of Philadelphia while Martha is visiting there will take the heiress far from her privileged world.

The dead woman is believed to be a missing employee of the Quaker City Mill. Martha searches for answers while also trying to help her friend Becky Taitt, a former actress and runaway wife whose abusive socialite husband will kill her before he lets her take custody of his child and heir.

From the drawing rooms of Philadelphias elite to the inhumane factories and textile mills that exploit working-class women and children, Without Fear exposes the ever-growing divide between rich and poor and a festering evil that touches everyone, including Marthas daughter.

Members Reviews:

Without Fear

I have read all her books and love them. I wish she could write them faster.

Not bad

Biddle does a good job of recreating Philadelphia, and there was certainly a good mystery at play. However it was tied up too quickly and neatly in the end.

Great follow-up in this series

This is a wonderfully written and meticulously researched novel. The third book in this series, and it more than lives up to the beauty and passion Biddle created with the first two Martha Beale novels. I recommend this highly to anyone who loves historical fiction and stylish writing.

Great mystery

THis was a mystery until the end. As usual her character development was terrific and the plot line so authentic I felt as if I were there.

Cordelia Biddle has done it again!

This third Martha Beale historical mystery, like the first two, draws us deeply into 19th-century Philadelphia, contrasting Martha's privileged world with that of the rest of 19th-century American society. In so doing, Biddle deftly tells us something about economic and class disparities in our own time as well. In this installment, Martha continues to develop as a character, displaying her humanity and innate sense of justice as well as her personal weaknesses and class blindness. As you are drawn more deeply into her world, and into the immediate and compelling mysteries that she is drawn to solve, you will find yourself quite unable to put the book down, and perhaps even, like me, talking to Martha, wanting to be by her side, giving her the friendship and support and guidance she so needs, for she was a motherless child and, as we learned in the first book, is now fatherless as well. You will love this remarkable young woman's spunk and fearlessness in the face of the ignorance and prejudice about the role of women in society which were the reality of her time and place. You will also love the vivid and immediate evocations of the streets of Philadelphia, from Society Hill to Southwark, Manayunk to Chestnut Hill. Flawlessly written and meticulously researched, Ms. Biddle's historical fiction is time-travel at its very best.