cover image Dead Born

Dead Born

Joan Lock. Trafalgar Square Publishing, $29.99 (191pp) ISBN 978-0-7090-7016-0

In Joan Lock's gripping Victorian mystery, Dead Born, the sequel to Dead Image, Detective Sergeant Best goes undercover to try to collar the fiend who's been leaving the bodies of dead babies around Islington. His quest takes him aboard the Thames pleasure steamer Princess Alice, which sinks in one of Britain's worst real-life disasters.