Newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale discovers that a series of seemingly random murders may be connected in this absorbing historical mystery.London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the postmortem on the victim produces shocking results Patrick Donovans death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain?When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague, Hulda Friederichs, begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society.

Binding: Hardback;384 pages; Publisher: Canongate Books; Classification: FFH; Weight: 612 g; Dimensions: 222 x 178 x 30

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