Cecily Riley 
Chess Player 

Lucy Hall, a dancer at the Black Cat Theatre in 1930s London, gets herself into all kinds of adventures. This time, it’s all about chess: on stage, a tableau of exotic chess pieces and, on the streets, the murder of a chess player’s wife as Lucy is drawn into bizarre and dangerous encounters. The Chess Player is a delicious, sexy and thrilling novella, an evocation of a lost world, with mature themes and tantalizing scenes. First in the Secrets of a Dancing Girl series.