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Skin Like Silver: A Tom Harper Victorian police procedural (A Tom Harper Mystery)
Skin Like Silver A Tom Harper Victorian police procedural - A Tom Harper Mystery Author:Chris Nickson The third intriguing historical mystery to feature Detective Inspector Tom Harper — Leeds, England. October, 1891. An unclaimed parcel at the Central Post Office is discovered to contain the decomposing body of a baby boy. It?s a gruesome case for DI Tom Harper. Then a fire during the night destroys half the railway station. The next day a woman... more »?s body is found in the rubble. But Catherine Carr didn?t die in the blaze: she?d been stabbed to death ? and Harper has to find her killer.
The estranged wife of a wealthy industrialist, Catherine had been involved with the Leeds Suffragist Society, demanding votes for women, the same organization for which Harper?s wife Annabelle has just become a speaker. Were Catherine?s politics the cause of her death? Or is the husband she abandoned behind it? But when her brother escapes from the asylum and steals a shotgun, Harper has to race to find the answers.« less