He wanted to follow Lizzy yet knew it was impossible. He had work to do, a murderer to find, and keeping busy was far preferable to dwelling on the end of what had only just begun between him and his superior’s daughter. “We’re not finished here, Reed.” It was only Ainsworth’s gruff voice that re...
With so many common lodging houses on the road, it had become one of the busiest, foulest, and most dangerous thoroughfares in the East End. But as he approached the building where he’d last seen Rose, he noticed several dome-hatted constables among the throng. Swallowing down a wave of bile, he ...