Lead Review

• Book: The Fleet Street Murders
• Location: London
• Author: Charles Finch

“It was late in the evening, and a thin winter rain beat down over London’s low buildings and high steeples, collecting in sallow pools beneath the streetlights and insinuating its way inside the clothes of the miserable few whom fate had kept outside.” This is the opening sentence. Captures London superbly, no need to say more! – Harry Jenkins –

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