The Detective Branch: A Pyke Mystery
"Splendid . . . readers who prefer their historicals mired in the gritty reality of the times can’t do any better.”  —BooklistonKill-Devil and Water"Superb . . . an author to watch."  —Publishers Weeklystarred review ofThe Revenge of Captain Paine"Pyke is violent, vengeful and conflicted in the best tradition of detectives. His story takes in grisly murder and torture, and uses 1800s London in the same way that hard-boiled fiction uses Los Angeles as a mirror of a corrupt society."  —Time OutonThe Last Days of Newgate"Drips with all the atmospheric detail of a pre-Victorian murder mystery—'pea-soupers,' dingy lanterns, and laudanum."  —TimesonThe Revenge of Captain Paine