Rachel Savernake #01: Gallows Court

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London, 1930. A spate of violent deaths - the details too foul to print - has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake is on the killer's trail... 'Superb' LEE CHILD. LONDON, 1930. Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this . A spate of violent deaths - the details too foul to print - has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake is no ordinary woman . To Scotland Yard's embarrassment, she solved the Chorus Girl Murder, and now she's on the trail of another killer . Jacob Flint, manning The Clarion 's crime desk, is looking for the scoop that will make his name . He's certain there is more to the Miss Savernake's amateur sleuthing than meets the eye . Flint's pursuit of his story will mire him ever- deeper into a labyrinth of deception and corruption . Murder-by-murder, he is swept ever-closer to that ancient place of execution, where it all began and where it will finally end: Gallows Court. 'Packed with evocative period detail, twists and turns and a fascinatingly enigmatic anti-heroine' FINANCIAL TIMES . 'Gripping' Peter Robinson. 'Satisfyingly twisty' Simon Brett. 'Dark, yet dazzling' Peter Lovesey. 'Superb - a pitch-perfect blend of Golden Age charm and sinister modern suspense , with a main character to die for. This is the book Edwards was born to write' LEE CHILD.