Mind of a killer: a victorian mystery, hardcover/simon beaufort

Newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale discovers that a series of seemingly random murders may be connected in this absorbing historical mystery.

London, 1882.

Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire.

But the post-mortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovans death was no accident.

But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague, Hulda Friederichs, begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society.