The Man in the Shadows

In August 1881, the World's End Investigation Bureau in London is bustling with cases, but Lily Raynor yearns for one that moves beyond the lives of the privileged elite. Her wish leads her to assist the Reverend James Jellicote, who seeks help for an elderly Jewish refugee whose eleven-year-old grandson, Yakov, has mysteriously vanished. Meanwhile, another case unfolds as Jared Spokewright fights to prove his brother Abel's innocence in a murder that led to his execution, raising dangerous questions about the true identity of the killer.