Description
Victorian London, 1850. Maude Horton is on a quest for truth. And justice.
Two years earlier, Maude’s adventurous sister Constance disguised herself as a boy to board the Makepeace, an expedition vessel bound for Arctic waters. She never returned.
Ever since, the British Admiralty has repeatedly ignored Maude’s pleas for an explanation, dismissing Constance’s death as nothing more than a tragic accident.
Then Maude receives her sister’s diary from onboard ship. It’s clear from Constance’s increasingly frantic entries that she had made a dangerous enemy in the Makepeace’s shady scientist Edison Stowe . . .
Now back in London, Edison is lodging above an old curiosity shop called Mr Inchbold’s Bones. Desperate for money, he’s launched a travel company to capitalise on the murder mania sweeping England. ‘Edison Stowe’s Moral Compass Tours’ will take guests around the country to witness public hangings. And one of his first tour guests is a mysterious young woman who seems more interested in him than the executions.
Maude Horton is on Edison’s tail and determined to extract the truth from him – in any way she can . . .
