The Last Days of Newgate The first book Pyke Mystery

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St Giles London 1829. Three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke sometime Bow Street Runner sometime crook finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realizes that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching. In his pursuit of the murderer Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people and falsely accused of murder himself he soon faces a death sentence and the gallows of Old Bailey. Imprisoned and with only his uncle and the headstrong aristocratic daughter of his greatest enemy believing in him Pyke must engineer his escape find the real killer and untangle the web of politics that has been spun around him. From the gutters of Seven Dials to the cells of Newgate prison; from the turmoil of 1800s Belfast to the highest levels of murky pre-Victorian politics The Last Days of Newgate is a gripping darkly atmospheric story with a fantastic pragmatic - and reluctantly heroic - hero.