A rich evocative thriller set in the seething vitality of 1890s New York by the author of THE ALIENIST.

B format publication of this wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century.

We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you . Sue, orphaned at birth, is born among petty thieves - fingersmiths - in London's Borough. From the moment she draws breath, her fate is linked to another orphan, growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising towers of Victorian London, May discovers another side of the city and remembers a disturbing, violent past.

Maisie Dobbs takes on her first investigation in 1920s London

Combining a historical setting, a supernatural theme and a compelling and likeable heroine, this is a novel for teen girls.