Part of the Parasol Protectorate series , book 4
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A ghost warns Alexia Maccon, the soulless woman who is the Queen's acting muhjah, that someone intends to kill Queen Victoria. Alexia, who is expecting a baby, sets out to find out who is behind the plot.
She is ambushed in a London street by a horde of zombie porcupines, her parasol fails her, and her husband, the werewolf Conall Maccon, has to drive them off. Her sister Felicity has moved in, and the investigation leads into her husband's past. The fourth Parasol Protectorate novel by Gail Carriger, a comic steampunk fantasy.
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Carriger, Gail
Gail Carriger is an American archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. She is a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Carriger
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