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.
____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.