{"product_id":"9780297857112","title":"The Last Days of Newgate: An addictive mystery thriller full of twists and turns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A story of high intrigue and low politics, brutal murder and cunning conspiracies . . . tangy and rambunctious stuff!' \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping and atmospheric' \u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Enjoyably disturbing . . . likely to leave the reader clamouring for more' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realises that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his pursuit of the murderer, Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people and, falsely accused of murder himself, he soon faces a death sentence and the gallows. Imprisoned, and with only his uncle and the headstrong, aristocratic daughter of his greatest enemy to help, Pyke must engineer his escape, find the real killer and untangle the web of intrigue that has been spun around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story of intrigue, conspiracy and murder set in 19th-century Britain for fans of Antonia Hodgson, \u003ci\u003eRipper Street\u003c\/i\u003e and Patrick Easter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The novel drips with all the atmospheric details of a pre-Victorian murder mystery - \"pea-soupers\", dingy lanterns and laudanum' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Pyke ia an intriguingly unfathomable character' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Pyke is violent, vengeful and conflicted in the best tradition of  detectives. His story takes in grisly murder and torture, and uses 1800s  London in the same way that hard-boiled fiction uses Los Angeles as a  mirror of a corrupt society' \u003ci\u003eTime Out \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Group, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124924924144,"sku":"9780297857112","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780297857112_p0.jpg?v=1763683683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780297857112","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}