From Booklist
Victorian London suffers a series of devastating bomb attacks perpetrated by the Irish Fenians. Police Inspector Ernest Best is assigned to follow suspected Fenian terrorist Kevin O'Brien, but the job is boring and frustrating. Best finds himself diverted by a tragic appeal in the personals column of the newspaper--a young woman begs "F" (husband? lover? son?) to return and save her from destitution. Best is intrigued, although he suspects the woman's plea could be a scam. More bombings, a murder, a trip to Paris, a dead American, a missing millionaire, and a dangerous swindle all figure into either the woman's plight or the terrorist plot. The police procedural aspect of Lock's latest takes a backseat to her intriguing, meticulously researched descriptions of -nineteenth-century London; it's difficult to miss the chilling parallels between the Irish bombings in the 1880s and the London terrorist attacks of 2005. A solid and very readable addition to the Inspector Best series. Emily Melton
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Review
"As usual, Lock produces a clever, engaging mystery with plenty of authentic Victorian ambience" Booklist on Dead End "Lock's latest Inspector Best novel makes outstanding reading for historical mystery buffs" Booklist on Dead Letters "Gripping Victorian mystery" Publishers Weekly on Dead Born"
--This text refers to an alternate
Hardcover
edition.
