London, 1868. Someone is hunting the men who built their fortunes on the suffering of children.

And London has given him a name.

The Black Imp.

When a prominent factory owner is found dead, Gideon Locke is drawn into an investigation that reaches far beyond a single murder.

Another man is targeted. Then another.

The trail leads Gideon and his partner, Eve Archer, through the factories, markets and rooftops of Victorian London and towards the dark history of St Jude's Industrial Home, where forgotten children were once recorded in ledgers, put to work and quietly discarded by the men entrusted with their care.

Someone remembers what happened there.

Someone has been waiting.

As newspapers turn a masked figure into London's newest terror, Gideon finds himself pursuing an adversary who seems always to know where he will look next. A figure in black leather who moves across the city with frightening purpose, leaving behind little more than questions.

But Gideon discovers something more disturbing than the mask.

A list of names.

Some have already been crossed out.

And the Black Imp isn't finished.

Set among the gaslit streets, factories, markets and rooftops of nineteenth-century London, The Black Imp is a dark Victorian mystery of murder, revenge and the terrible consequences of a past that refused to stay buried.

The third Gideon Locke Mystery.

The Black Imp

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