The Butcher of Berner Street - Reeve, Alex
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The latest atmospheric mystery from the author of the Richard and the Judy Book Club choice, The House on Half Moon Street.'Exceptional - you hear and smell and taste Victorian London' Sarah HilaryThe headlines scream warnings about the 'Butcher of Berner Street!' and the journalist behind them - Leo Stanhope - is secretly thrilled to see the effect his words are having. Leo is used to covering more mundane issues, but when an anonymous letter summons him to a club in East London, only for the owner of the club to be found murdered shortly afterwards, Leo sees a story worth pursuing. Not to…mehr

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The latest atmospheric mystery from the author of the Richard and the Judy Book Club choice, The House on Half Moon Street.'Exceptional - you hear and smell and taste Victorian London' Sarah HilaryThe headlines scream warnings about the 'Butcher of Berner Street!' and the journalist behind them - Leo Stanhope - is secretly thrilled to see the effect his words are having. Leo is used to covering more mundane issues, but when an anonymous letter summons him to a club in East London, only for the owner of the club to be found murdered shortly afterwards, Leo sees a story worth pursuing. Not to mention an opportunity to make a name for himself.Yet the more Leo digs, the stranger the story becomes, taking him from the club to a nearby convent, and into the past of a very unusual woman. But he is not the only one hunting for a killer. And it seems Leo's newspaper reports may have put someone else in grave danger.The Butcher of Berner Street is a brilliantly atmospheric, characterful Victorian mystery, perfect for fans of Antonia Hodgson, Abir Mukherjee and Andrew Taylor.____________________The latest Leo Stanhope case, The Blood Flower, is available to pre-order now - out July 2022!____________________
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Alex Reeve lives in Oxfordshire and is a university lecturer. The Butcher of Berner Street is the third in the Leo Stanhope series, following on from the The House on Half Moon Street and The Anarchists' Club. The acclaimed series has been shortlisted twice for the CWA Sapere Books Historical Dagger, with The House on Half Moon Street also shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and the RSL Christopher Bland Prize.
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The atmosphere is exceptional - you hear and smell and taste Victorian London - while the themes are thoroughly up to date. Alex has combined painstaking historical research with a deep and compassionate understanding of what matters most to us, right now Sarah Hilary