The Photographer of Pell Street

London, 1889. Constance Pell takes portraits of the dead above a funeral parlour, because there is a lease to pay. When a young woman is brought in for a memorial portrait, Constance sees in the developing tray what the inspector did not: the light in the dead woman's eye shows a room the family never spoke of, and the marks on her throat were made from behind. So Constance begins photographing the city's dead for evidence, and selling the prints to a woman the Yard will not let carry a case. The killer owns a portrait she made. He knows her work. He is coming to the studio for a sitting. A Victorian historical mystery and an absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller, told in plates.