Thomson E. S.
Thomson E. S. - Under Ground - Paperback
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Description: Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish a faultless tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction JESS KIDD In the darkness her face glimmered like polished bone white but with a bluish tinge. Her lips were dry and cracked. I saw them move; a black tongue pass over them as if she was trying to speak but she made no sound. A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more than the Devil himself cholera - the 'blue death - spares no one. As fear grows across the city Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are called to the bedside of a dead man murdered and with his throat torn out in the back room of a brothel. When an innocent man is taken to Newgate Jem and Will have until execution day to save him. The search for the identity of the corpse and the killer takes them to the gates of Blackwater Hall home to the secretive and corrupt Mortmain family. With the approach of autumn no one is safe for the fog brings with it an evil and poisonous sickness - the perfect shroud for murder. When family secrets are prised out into the open people begin dying. But who or what is the cause? Searching for answers Jem and Will are driven underground to the passages and tunnels beneath the city's teeming streets. Here their adversary proves to be more elusive and more deadly than ever. Praise FOR Under Ground From the outset every image every metaphor and simile reflects the central themes of corruption and disease poverty and decadence. The plot is complex and substantial and the final denouement has a feeling of perfect inevitability ALIS Hawkins I Loved it. Fantastic characters - I never guessed! So good Underground is brilliantly steeped in the lore of Victorian London i couldn't take my eyes off it! SAR a Sheridan Immersive Scotland ON Sunday Praise FOR E. S. Thomson Another gripping page - turner add Nightshade to your reading list now. Edinburgh Evening News Vivid pungent and perilous Chris Brookmyre on Beloved Poison Evocative. brilliant plotting Rebecc a Griffiths on Beloved Poison A dark gripping atmospheric thriller Dundee Courier on Nightshade Superb Sunday Express Gothic. Gory. Glorious E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred smart complex and unapologetically queer Kirsty Logan author of The Gloaming Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this! Rebecca Griffiths author of The Primrose Path Complex harrowing and highly enjoyable Daily Express
Title: Under Ground
Author(s): Thomson E. S.
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472131553
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 1/7/2025
Category: Historical Mysteries
Description: Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish a faultless tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction JESS KIDD In the darkness her face glimmered like polished bone white but with a bluish tinge. Her lips were dry and cracked. I saw them move; a black tongue pass over them as if she was trying to speak but she made no sound. A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more than the Devil himself cholera - the 'blue death - spares no one. As fear grows across the city Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are called to the bedside of a dead man murdered and with his throat torn out in the back room of a brothel. When an innocent man is taken to Newgate Jem and Will have until execution day to save him. The search for the identity of the corpse and the killer takes them to the gates of Blackwater Hall home to the secretive and corrupt Mortmain family. With the approach of autumn no one is safe for the fog brings with it an evil and poisonous sickness - the perfect shroud for murder. When family secrets are prised out into the open people begin dying. But who or what is the cause? Searching for answers Jem and Will are driven underground to the passages and tunnels beneath the city's teeming streets. Here their adversary proves to be more elusive and more deadly than ever. Praise FOR Under Ground From the outset every image every metaphor and simile reflects the central themes of corruption and disease poverty and decadence. The plot is complex and substantial and the final denouement has a feeling of perfect inevitability ALIS Hawkins I Loved it. Fantastic characters - I never guessed! So good Underground is brilliantly steeped in the lore of Victorian London i couldn't take my eyes off it! SAR a Sheridan Immersive Scotland ON Sunday Praise FOR E. S. Thomson Another gripping page - turner add Nightshade to your reading list now. Edinburgh Evening News Vivid pungent and perilous Chris Brookmyre on Beloved Poison Evocative. brilliant plotting Rebecc a Griffiths on Beloved Poison A dark gripping atmospheric thriller Dundee Courier on Nightshade Superb Sunday Express Gothic. Gory. Glorious E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred smart complex and unapologetically queer Kirsty Logan author of The Gloaming Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this! Rebecca Griffiths author of The Primrose Path Complex harrowing and highly enjoyable Daily Express
Title: Under Ground
Author(s): Thomson E. S.
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472131553
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 1/7/2025
Category: Historical Mysteries
