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On Copper Street: A Victorian police procedural (A Tom Harper Mystery)
On Copper Street A Victorian police procedural - A Tom Harper Mystery Author:Chris Nickson Detective Inspector Tom Harper finds answers hard to come by in his latest, most challenging, investigation to date. — Leeds, England. March, 1895. The day after his release from prison, petty criminal Henry White is found stabbed to death at his terraced home on Copper Street. Pursuing enquiries in a neighbourhood where people are suspicious of... more » strangers and hostile to the police, DI Tom Harper and his team find the investigation hard going. If anyone knows anything about Henry White?s murder ? or the robbery that landed him in gaol in the first place ? they are unable or unwilling to say.
At the same time, acid is thrown over a young boy in a local bakery in a seemingly unprovoked attack.
Praying for a breakthrough, Harper knows that he must uncover the motive in each case if he is to have any chance of catching the culprits. Of one thing he is certain: if he doesn?t find answers soon, more deaths will follow.« less
ISBN-13: 9780727886965 ISBN-10: 0727886967 Publication Date: 6/1/2017 Pages:224 Edition:First World Publicat Rating: