London is enjoying an era of unparalleled prosperity. The threat of terrorism hangs in the air, but the papers are full of stories of technological breakthroughs, get-rich-quick investments and scandals involving the royal family. It is 1859. When a hydraulic engine explodes at the site of the new Euston Station and a body is recovered, young police recruit, Campbell Lawless, newly arrived from Scotland, stumbles onto the trail of an elusive activist called Berwick Skelton. He learns of Skelton’s rise from humble beginnings to mix with London’s high and mighty, of his breathless love affair, and of the mysterious philanderer who has stolen his sweetheart. Aided by code-cracking librarian, Ruth Villiers, and a gang of street urchins known as the Worms, he searches for this mastermind of the underworld. Can they track him down before he unleashes a spectacular attack on those who have wronged him and his people?
William Sutton was born in Scotland and read Classics at Oxford. He has written plays for radio and stage, performed on the Edinburgh Fringe, tutored the Sugababes and played cricket for Brazil. He is working on another Campbell Lawless mystery.
Visit William’s own website at william-sutton.co.uk.
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