One morning in 1818, I am asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. I join him in the hunt, which entails entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders.
Meanwhile, I must deal with the terrifying ordeal of my daughter’s debut and more developments in my new domestic life, including an anonymous blackmailer who’s seemingly out to ruin me any way he can, not stopping short of murder.