The Last Fatal Hour

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Women Sleuths, Murder Mystery, Novels, Historical, and Debut

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Violence

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Apr 7, 2026

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310 pages

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The Last Fatal Hour

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Blurb

Has Leona finally run out of time?

For Leona Gladney, former woman soldier of the Union Army, life goes on despite the echoes of the battlefield in her heart. Now a suffragist and budding socialite in Brooklyn Heights, she yearns for a literary life and family. But her husband’s business partner embezzles their money and disappears.

The society matrons of Brooklyn Heights turn a gimlet eye on Leona after the suspicious death of a wealthy friend. Leona will do anything to find justice for her friend and clear her own name, but she finds only secrets, seances and murder.

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Genres

Women Sleuths, Murder Mystery, Novels, Historical, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Violence

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or Apple Books

Reader Spots Remaining

Number of days to read

Publication Date

Apr 7, 2026

Page Length

310 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Jan Matthews is an American expat living in the sunshine in Portugal. She is (finally) retired from HIM and writes historical mysteries from the Middle Ages to World War I. When not writing or drinking coffee and wine in nearby cafes, she knits and crochets for charity and reviews books on her blog.