<DIV><DIV><B>Ingeniously plotted and seething with grotesque characters, the striking first novel in a new Gothic Victorian crime series will grip readers from its first dark pages</B></div><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Murder is rampant in Early Victorian London. Detective Inspector Newsome of the new Detective Force decides to recruit a recently-apprehended master criminal to help bring the culprits to justice. A polymath with a mysterious past, the man is no eager volunteer. And when the ghastly murder of conjoined twins galvanizes the city, Newsome blackmails his prisoner?Noah Dyson, as he calls himself?into working with the Force's finest: Sergeant George Williamson. Unknown to the policemen, the criminal genius behind the murder shares a dark past with their new associate. It is not justice that is on Dyson's mind, but retribution. As Williamson and Dyson together close the net, the murder-rate soars and the streets of London begin to burn.</div></DIV>