“stellar… Ruth Rendell fans open to stories set a century ago will be well satisfied.” Publishers Weekly starred review

“excellent, atmospheric”

Laura Skippen, Shots Mag

“Recommended” Geoff Jones, Eurocrime

 “a gripping read” Booklist

 “Dickensian zest” Kirkus

 

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April, 1914. Against his better judgement, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn is attending the premiere of the new motion picture by notorious Austrian film-maker Konrad Waechter. But the glamorous event is interrupted by the piercing screams of a young woman in the street outside. She has been viciously mutilated in a horrific attack which eerily echoes a macabre act of violence in Waechter’s film. As he questions those who attended the premiere, Quinn’s jaundiced view of the fledgling film industry as a business based on illusion and pretence, where no one is what they seem, appears to be justified. But when members of London’s Establishment start to receive bizarre hand-delivered parcels containing the strangest of contents, the investigation takes a disturbing twist.

 

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