Kate Williams

Pitch-perfect . . . This intoxicating and disturbing novel is properly thrilling and extraordinarily well-written

An eerie murder mystery set in the corrupt heart of Victorian London

Part-bodice-ripper, part-slasher, the book's elaborate plot moves along at a brisk clip with a nod to the likes of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd

A sure-footed evocation of seamy Victorian London

A sinister picture of a country, and protagonist, on the brink of hysteria

As crowded with sensation as a Victorian parlour with furniture

A spider's web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense

Spitalfields, 1840. 
 
Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. When a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, Catherine is both horrified and fascinated. 
 
As the murders continue to panic the city, however, she gradually realizes she is snared in a deadly trap, where nothing is as it first appears -- for lurking behind the lies Catherine has been told are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her imagination can conjure.

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Praise for The Pleasures of Men

Pitch-perfect . . . This intoxicating and disturbing novel is properly thrilling and extraordinarily well-written

A dark story of murder and obsession

An eerie murder mystery set in the corrupt heart of Victorian London

Pitch-perfect . . . This intoxicating and disturbing novel is properly thrilling and extraordinarily well-written

A dark story of murder and obsession

An eerie murder mystery set in the corrupt heart of Victorian London

Pitch-perfect . . . This intoxicating and disturbing novel is properly thrilling and extraordinarily well-written

A dark story of murder and obsession

An eerie murder mystery set in the corrupt heart of Victorian London

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