London 1850. Fog in the air & filth in the streets from the rat-infested graveyard of Tom-All-Alones to the elegant chambers in Lincolns Inn Fields where the formidable lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn has powerful clients to protect & a deadly secret to hide. Only that secret is now under threat from a shadowy & unseen adversary
- an adversary who must be tracked down at all costs before its too late. Who better for such a task than young Charles Maddox? Unfairly dismissed from the police force Charles is struggling to establish himself as a private detective. Only business is slow & his one case a dead end so when Tulkinghorn offers a handsome price for an apparently simple job Charles is unable to resist. But as he soon discovers nothing here is what it seems. An assignment that starts with anonymous letters leads soon to a brutal murder as the investigation lures Charles ever deeper into the terrible darkness Tulkinghorn will stop at nothing to conceal. Inspired by Charles Dickens masterpiece Bleak House" " Tom-All-Alones" is a new & gripping Victorian murder mystery which immerses the reader in a grim London underworld that Dickens could only hint at
- a world in which girls as young as ten work the night as prostitutes unwanted babies are ruthlessly disposed of & those who threaten the rank & reputations of great men are eliminated at once & without remorse."