now don't go looking, but the epilogue is one of the most satisfying and clever I came across
— ★★★★★
I loved this book
— ★★★★★
masterful,original, and refreshingly well written
— ★★★★★
December 1880, Whitechapel. Nine dead infants in flowerpots. A vanished mortician. And one lead: the prostitute who saw him last.
Coroner Sévère reads people's lies as easily as case notes. It's made him an effective investigator. And cynical. But when he questions Miss Mary, he encounters something unexpected: a woman whose lies he can't read and who might as well be the mortician's killer.
In a city where money masks the darkest secrets, Sévère must navigate between what's legal and what's necessary. Even if it means hiring the services of the very woman he's investigating.
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A gritty Victorian crime novel that explores the darkest corners of London's underworld. For readers of Lyndsay Faye's The Gods of Gotham, Caleb Carr's The Alienist, and Antonia Hodgson's The Devil in the Marshalsea.
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Coroner Sévère has it all: a beautiful young wife, money, influence — and secrets to kill for.
A disease slowly claims his mobility while his wife Olivia harbours her own danger: she once belonged to Chief Magistrate Frost, a man with cruel appetites. When Sévère and Olivia investigate Chief Magistrate Frost's crimes, more than the Coroner’s career is at risk.
Sévère might find himself at the gallows.
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A gritty Victorian crime novel that explores the darkest corners of London's underworld. For readers of Lyndsay Faye's The Gods of Gotham, Caleb Carr's The Alienist, and Antonia Hodgson's The Devil in the Marshalsea.
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When hunting monsters, you must be willing to become one.
Gavriel Sévère lost everything in one devastating blow: his position as coroner for a murder he didn't commit, and the use of his legs for one he did. When his wife Olivia vanishes without a word, he believes he's lost her too. Alone, he drowns in hundreds of letters begging for help — missing children Scotland Yard dismisses as runaways.
Then Olivia returns, haunted and changed, and she recognises what others have missed. Something from her own dark past. Something that could destroy her. Now Sévère must choose between the law he once served and the justice it fails to deliver.
For Olivia, there is no choice at all. When hunting monsters, you must be willing to become one.
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A gritty Victorian crime novel that explores the darkest corners of London's underworld. For readers of Lyndsay Faye's The Gods of Gotham, Caleb Carr's The Alienist, and Antonia Hodgson's The Devil in the Marshalsea.
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