"...a formidable dark-romantic conspiracy novel. A duel of two deduction monsters." - Welt
"...provocative and original..." - Peter Kavanagh, CBC Radio Producer
A series of systematic murders. A killer the police don't seem to see. A brilliant woman with dark secrets.
When a corpse surfaces in the city's waterworks, the Metropolitan Police fear a cholera outbreak. They summon bacteriologist Dr. Anton Kronberg, who spots something far more sinister hinting at the victim's excruciating end.The police lose interest when evidence of foul play seems too weak and far-fetched. To catch the killer, Kronberg is forced into an alliance with Sherlock Holmes. Their suspicions deepen when a second victim is found, and both stumble into a world of abduction, abuse, and systematic murder.But this isn't Kronberg's biggest problem. Catching a killer and staying alive would be much less challenging if the doctor didn’t have dark secrets of … her own.