The Limehouse Golem
by Peter Ackroyd | 
Chatterton
by Peter Ackroyd | 
Crippen
by John Boyne | 
Lightning Men
by Thomas Mullen | 
The Cup of Ghosts
by Paul Doherty | 
The Scent of Death
by Andrew Taylor | 
The Roots of Betrayal
by James Forrester | 
The King's Gambit
by John Maddox Roberts | 
The Poisoned Island
by Lloyd Shepherd | 
Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd | 
Rust & Stardust
by T. Greenwood | 
November Road
by Lou Berney | 
Arthur & George
by Julian Barnes | 
The Heresy of Dr Dee
by Phil Rickman | 
See What I Have Done
by Sarah Schmidt | 
The English Monster
by Lloyd Shepherd | 
The Distant Hours
by Kate Morton | 
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens | 
The Stolen Marriage
by Diane Chamberlain | 
The Muse
by Jessie Burton |
The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London's dark streets, the sense of time and place becomes overwhelmingly immediate and real. We experience the sights and sounds of the English music halls, smell the smells of London slums, hear the hooves of horses on the cobblestone streets, and attend the trial of Elizabeth Cree, a woman accused of poisoning her husband but who may be the one person who knows the truth about the murders.