Ratcatcher S. J. Parris there's a key

there's a key

you can really hear the music everybody talks about so reverently

Past and present converge and Minter finds himself pitted against the only family he has ever known - the police family - as he fights to uncover the startling truth

So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family - of a life - will come to nothing

Or has one or other of his old crimes caught up with the failed plantation owner

Ratcatcher S. J. Parris there's a keyRegency London is vividly brought to life in this extraordinary page turner, the first in a series of historical thrillers featuring Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood a dangerous, sexy and fascinating hero. Hunting down highwaymen was not the usual preserve of a Bow Street Runner. As the most resourceful of this elite band of investigators, Matthew Hawkwood was surprised to be assigned the case even if it did involve the murder and mutilation of a