It is 1878 and Sally Lockhart is now working as a financial consultant. One of her clients comes to her after the ship she has invested in goes down and Sally feels responsible, so she investigates with the help of her friend Jim, now working for Garland's Detective Agency with Frederick Garland. Sally's investigations turn up a hornet's nest involving powerful industrialist Axel Bellman, a world of disgraced cut off aristocratic children and forced marriage and a terrible lethal secret in the frozen north.
This was my favourite of the Sally Lockhart mysteries, Sally is a strong female lead who Pullman is not afraid to give flaws but shows real courage and the author returns to a subject about which he speaks so beautifully: the far north.
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