A Thieving Season

Victorian London comes to life in the second Elephant and Castle novel when Kit Jimeson, a former member of an all-women thieving gang, is drawn back into the criminal world to catch the mastermind behind a series of high-stakes art thefts.

Six months ago, after becoming entangled in a series of murders that nearly cost her and her sister their lives, Kit Jimeson left her all-women thieving ring in South London’s Elephant and Castle district. Now, Kit has finally started a new venture working as an art journalist, leaving her life of crime where it belongs: in the past.

But thieving is the only life Kit has known—and it’s not done with her. When Gordon Stiles, detective-inspector at Scotland Yard, approaches her for help investigating a series of thefts, he doesn’t give her much of a choice in the matter. Valuable paintings are being stolen from the homes of prominent London families and evidence suggests a woman thief. Now, she must delve into the ballrooms of high-society London—this time, not as a thief, but as an amateur detective hoping to catch a clever criminal.

When it becomes clear that someone is trying to frame Kit for the thefts, she must use every resource she can to solve the case to clear her name. But, for someone like Kit, is it possible to leave the past behind?