Make hell for leather and stop a vicious killer from striking again.
During a hospital visit, Lady Violet Thorn overhears a young woman accusing a married couple of her parents' murder and stealing their home, Maccabee House.
From body parts scattered around town igniting rumours about a cannibal to a sex worker found brutalised, Macabre events soon unfold culminating in Violet receiving a mannequin, resembling herself, stabbed through the heart.
With the town of Montford in meltdown, Violet knows that the answers wait at Maccabee House, which lies in the shadow of the old tannery. But with the killer's sights firmly on her, can she make it out alive?
An enthralling and gripping Victorian crime caper from the bestselling author of the Gower Street Detective series, perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz, M. C. Beaton, and Oscar De Muriel.
Martin Kasasian was raised in Lancashire. He has had careers as varied as a factory hand, wine waiter, veterinary assistant, fairground worker and dentist. He is the author of two previous historical mystery series including the Gower Street Detective series.
