The Wicked Cometh
2018’s must-read novel of a city’s darkest secrets
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort . . .'
'Brilliant' Emerald Street
A Red Magazine February best read
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Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and the city's vulnerable poor are disappearing from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible.
When Hester is thrust into the world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life under the tutelage of the fiercely intelligent and mysterious Rebekah Brock.
But whispers from her past slowly begin to poison her new life and both she and Rebekah are lured into the most sinister of investigations, dragging them into the blackest heart of a city where something more depraved than either of them could ever imagine is lurking. . .
A compelling page-turner from a gifted new voice in historical fiction, The Wicked Cometh is the perfect read for fans of The Witchfinder's Sister, Fingersmith and The Essex Serpent.
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'Carlin can tell a good story' Observer
'A sterling, historical, dark, twisty novel' Kaite Welsh, Radio 4 Open Book
'Contains lovely, lyrical writing . . . and a heady romance at its heart' Sunday Express
'A deliciously dark confection of a novel' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In 1831, under a cloak of fog and shadows covering London, the poor and young are vanishing from the city without explanation. When a collision on the street places teenage orphan Hester White in the care of an aristocratic family, she becomes drawn into an intoxicating relationship and a bid to uncover the malevolent forces behind the disappearances. As she deftly unfurls a gripping and deeply chilling mystery, Laura Carlin evokes the era’s extremes of poverty and privilege with lucid prose and attention to fine detail.