Skin Like Silver

By Chris Nickson

Book Overview

Leeds, England. October, 1891. An unclaimed parcel at the Central Post Office is discovered to contain the decomposing body of a baby boy. It's a gruesome case for DI Tom Harper. Then a fire during the night destroys half the railway station. The next day a woman's body is found in the rubble. But Catherine Carr didn't die in the blaze: she'd been stabbed to death - and Harper has to find her killer.The estranged wife of a wealthy industrialist, Catherine had been involved with the Leeds Suffragist Society, demanding votes for women, the same organization for which Harper's wife Annabelle has just become a speaker. Were Catherine's politics the cause of her death? Or is the husband she abandoned behind it? But when her brother escapes from the asylum and steals a shotgun, Harper has to race to find the answers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0727885707
• ISBN13: 9780727885708
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Severn House
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"