Marcia K. (marwan) reviewed on 9/3/2006 + 496 more book reviews

Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but in happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. How, on Sunless Water Lane, respeccted solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. Beside him lies the barely living body of his son, Rhys. The police connot fathom these brutal assaults until shrewd investigator William Monk uncovers a connection between them and a series of rapes and beatings of local prostitutes. The, shockingly, it begins to appear that young Rhys may have killed his own father.

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