Fiction can be fatal\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city. But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then a novel called The Vampyre is published under his name, rumours begin to spread that Byron may be the murderer\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n #Dangerous\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/strong>\u00a0@essiefox<\/a><\/em>\u00a0@OrendaBooks<\/a><\/em> #RandomThingsTours\u00a0<\/a> @annecater\u00a0<\/a> @RandomTTours<\/a><\/em>\u00a0#booktwitter<\/em>\u00a0 As events escalate and tensions rise \u2013 and his own life is endangered, as well as those he holds most dear \u2013 Byron is forced to play detective, to discover who is really behind these heinous crimes. Meanwhile, the scandals of his own infamous past come back to haunt him\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Rich in Gothic atmosphere and drawing on real events and characters from Byron\u2019s life, Dangerous is a riveting, dazzling historical thriller, as decadent, dark and seductive as the poet himself\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n My Review<\/strong><\/p>\n Once I\u2019d finished the book and read the historical context at the end about the real characters and the fictional ones, I went online and did my own research. I never realised Byron was the father of Ada Lovelace or that Polidori\u2019s sister was the mother of Christina and Dante Gabriele Rosetti (the latter of which I was a bit obsessed with after watching the TV programme Desperate Romantics <\/em>in 2009). Polidori is also an interesting character, I\u2019ve researched him as well. Polidori\u2019s father worked as a secretary for the \u2018tragic\u2019 Italian playwright Count Vittorio Alfieri.<\/p>\n Dangerous<\/em> is a very entertaining read, though Lord Byron is hard to like. He is ultimately a selfish, self-absorbed, narcissistic philanderer. He spreads it about without consequence, but the one that upset me the most was his poor little daughter Allegra (her fate is well documented though I won\u2019t print a \u2018spoiler\u2019 \u2013 you can look it up). And I did worry about the menagerie, especially Mutz the dog (again real and well documented).<\/p>\n When a prostitute is murdered in the street and then another is found dead in Byron\u2019s bed at a brothel, the fingers point at him as he was there on both occasions. But is he a murderer or is he being framed? And why would anyone wish to discredit him? I could probably give a few reasons, his treatment of his \u2018women\u2019 being one, or being named as the author of Polidori\u2019s The Vampyre<\/em>. But nothing is ever that simple and we have a long way to go before the web is untangled. <\/p>\n I think it\u2019s the mix of fact and fiction that makes this book so interesting. I hope Netflix (other production companies are available) will take it up as it would make a fantastic series. And who wouldn\u2019t want to play Lord Byron? <\/p>\n Many thanks to\u00a0@annecater<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for inviting me to be part of\u00a0#RandomThingsTours<\/strong><\/p>\n
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