Under Ground

''Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish, a faultless tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction'' JESS KIDDIn the darkness, her face glimmered like polished bone ...

''Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish, a faultless tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction'' JESS KIDDIn the darkness, her face glimmered like polished bone, white, but with a bluish tinge. Her lips were dry and cracked. I saw them move; a black tongue pass over them as if she was trying to speak, but she made no sound.A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more than the Devil himself, cholera - the ''blue death'' - spares no one. As fear grows across the city, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are called to the bedside of a dead man, murdered, and with