‘The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE’ Sarah Perry

‘Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle’ Guardian

‘Has everything you could want in a novel’ Stylist

In Victorian London, poor women are vanishing, and rumours abound of a shadowy gang known as the Spiriters.

In the unfamiliar streets of Soho, Gideon Bliss sets out in search of his lost love. From a ledge above Mayfair a seamstress jumps to her death, a mysterious message stitched into her own skin. Nearby, her aristocratic employer makes an abrupt exit from a gala ball, with society columnist Octavia Hillingdon in pursuit.

And on the sullen Kent shore, as the darkness gathers, secrets lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands.