Keeper of Pleas: A Dark Victorian Crime Novel

Book 1: Keeper of Pleas Mysteries

by Annelie Wendeberg

Genres: Historical Mysteries; Private Investigators

Synopsis

On December 10, 1880, Coroner Sévère makes a gruesome discovery: nine newborns, buried in flowerpots, and hidden in plain sight in Whitechapel. A mortician receives the bodies and vanishes. Clues for the two seemingly unconnected cases are scarce.
When police and coroner learn that the missing mortician might have spent his last moments at the bosom of the infamous prostitute Miss Mary, a series of events is nudged into motion.
Lies are unearthed, rumours spread. Yet, the killer remains a faceless phantom. His secret seems buried forever.
Until the night Sévère requests Miss Mary’s services…

Warning: Medical procedures are depicted without apology.

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Release date: December 19, 2018

Print pages: 320