April 1851. Victorian London is in a fever, preparing for the Great Exhibition, constructing a spectacular 'Temple to Progress' - the glittering Crystal Palace.
When a murder victim goes missing from the morgue, Detective Inspector Harry Pilgrim never imagines that the trail will lead to the mastermind of the Exhibition, the Prince Consort himself. Prince Albert's beloved project has been subject first to sabotage and now to murder. Pilgrim is given the task of catching the culprits as quickly - and discreetly - as possible.
Unfortunately, discretion is not an option when Pilgrim's old ally Charles Dickens insists on getting involved.
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When Inspector Harry Pilgrim is asked to investigate a case of blackmail, he thinks it will be easy enough to expose the suspect, a spiritualist medium.
He is 'assisted' once more by Charles Dickens, who takes a keen interest in spiritual matters, and is determined to prove to the cynical detective that there is such a thing as life after death.
To Dickens' dismay Pilgrim enlists the help of American duo the Devyne Brothers - stage magicians who specialise in exposing fake mediums.
The investigation soon becomes a murder enquiry, and Pilgrim and Dickens uncover a scandal that forces them to question everything they believe in.
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I was born in a colliery village in the NE of England and grew up in a caravan stuffed full of books, cutting my literary teeth on the great storytellers of the 60's and 70's - Wilbur Smith, Frank Yerby, Mary Renault, and Sergeanne Golon. A degree in English put paid to my literary ambitions for a decade or so, and my first published novels were distinctly un-literary, for the Virgin Books Black Lace series. I live just outside Edinburgh with my husband, three kids, and a skinny dog.
I'm currently writing the next book in the Harry Pilgrim series. Provisionally called 'Beasts to the Slaughter', it's set in the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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