An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a...
Sir John Cranston, the Coroner of the City of London, comes to survey the scene when the corpse of Edwin Chapler is pulled from the Thames. When more clerks are murdered, Cranston and Athelstan, his secretarius, have to pit their wits against a...