Harriet Vale

Some secrets are buried for a reason. Others are locked away. When Margaret Ardglass is wrongfully committed to Sirens' Asylum, she quickly realizes the truth is far more dangerous than madness. Behind its imposing walls lies a place where inconvenient women are silenced, their stories erased-and where something far darker moves in the shadows. After a patient is found dead under suspicious circumstances, dismissed as hysteria by those in power, Margaret begins a quiet investigation.
With the help of a mute maid who communicates in secret symbols and a skeptical orderly who sees more than he admits, she uncovers a chilling pattern of disappearances, coded messages, and hidden passages beneath the asylum itself. But the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: this was no isolated murder. It was planned. And someone inside the asylum will do anything to keep the truth buried. Gothic, suspenseful, and rich with atmosphere, A Murder at the Sirens' Asylum is a gripping historical mystery of deception, power, and the dangerous cost of being heard.