Further questions arise when Drake and Jackson meet a grieving widow, who unlocks the heart of a deceptive scheme.Īs a lost girl wanders the dangerous streets of the East End alone, Detective Inspector Drake must try to find his old friend Edmund Reid and bring those responsible to justice. The inexplicable death of a clairvoyant takes the team into a world of devious charlatans capitalising on the grief of a sorrowful community.
But Drake is far from keen to preside over his friend's desk. It is an investigation which is to confront him with both his greatest shame and his greatest hope.Ĭhief Inspector Abberline asks Drake to take over the helm of H Division. The murder itself may have links to Long Susan's burgeoning property empire, Obsidian Estates, but Reid is far more concerned as to the identity and whereabouts of that cell's prisoner, a young girl kept there for many years. But such aspirations have a price - one which is paid by all those to lose their lives in the Leman Street Disaster.Ī routine murder inquiry in a curiosity shop reveals a secret underground cell. Meanwhile, Long Susan has made good on her promise to take control of Obsidian Estates, and has turned it into a legitimate business of huge philanthropic ambition.
But when the robbery of a goods train leads to a cataclysmic locomotive disaster on Leman Street itself,the men and their resentments are reunited to seek its cause. Time that has seen Reid, Drake and Jackson split and isolated from one another.
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