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Under Ground (Hardback)

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Hardback 384 Pages
Published: 05/10/2023
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'Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish, a faultless tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction' JESS KIDD

In the darkness, her face glimmered like polished bone, white, but with a bluish tinge. Her lips were dry and cracked. I saw them move; a black tongue pass over them as if she was trying to speak, but she made no sound.

A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more than the Devil himself, cholera - the 'blue death' - spares no one. As fear grows across the city, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are called to the bedside of a dead man, murdered, and with his throat torn out, in the back room of a brothel. When an innocent man is taken to Newgate, Jem and Will have until execution day to save him. The search for the identity of the corpse, and the killer, takes them to the gates of Blackwater Hall, home to the secretive, and corrupt Mortmain family. With the approach of autumn, no one is safe, for the fog brings with it an evil and poisonous sickness - the perfect shroud for murder.

When family secrets are prised out into the open, people begin dying. But who, or what, is the cause? Searching for answers, Jem and Will are driven underground, to the passages and tunnels beneath the city's teeming streets. Here, their adversary proves to be more elusive, and more deadly, than ever.

PRAISE FOR UNDER GROUND

'From the outset every image, every metaphor and simile reflects the central themes of corruption and disease, poverty and decadence.The plot is complex and substantial and the final denouement has a feeling of perfect inevitability' ALIS HAWKINS

'I LOVED it. Fantastic characters - I never guessed! So good ... Underground is brilliantly steeped in the lore of Victorian London, i couldn't take my eyes off it!' SARA SHERIDAN

'Immersive'SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

PRAISE FOR E.S.THOMSON

'Another gripping page-turner, add Nightshade to your reading list now.' Edinburgh Evening News

'Vivid, pungent and perilous' CHRIS BROOKMYRE on Beloved Poison

'Evocative...brilliant plotting' REBECCA GRIFFITHS on Beloved Poison

'A dark gripping atmospheric thriller' Dundee Courier on Nightshade

'Superb' Sunday Express

'Gothic. Gory. Glorious . . . E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, and unapologetically queer' Kirsty Logan, author of The Gloaming

'Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this!' Rebecca Griffiths, author of The Primrose Path

'Complex, harrowing and highly enjoyable' Daily Express

'A marvellous, vivid book' Janet Ellis

'Jem Flockhart is a marvel . . . This vivid journey into the dark side of the human soul is a thoroughly engrossing tale' Mary Paulson Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781472131539
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 608 g
Dimensions: 238 x 158 x 38 mm

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“Sublime”

Under Ground is a very topical excursion into the state of Victorian London’s sewers and rivers as backdrop for the ongoing detectivey adventures of Jem and Will. Possibly the author’s best book yet in this fantastic... More

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“Historical fiction done well! Fantastic book”

It's so good to be back with Jem and Will again! I've been eagerly awaiting this book since I've loved the previous 5 in the series, fans have a treat in store with this one! However if you're new... More

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“Highly recommended”

I'm very late at the party with my review but i also discovered that there were other five novels in this series and I want to read them as I was fascinated by this one.
There's a lot to love in this novel:... More

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