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PLAGUE PITS & 
RIVER BONES

by Karen Charlton
The Fourth Detective Lavender Mystery
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London, 1812: Savage gangs intent on treachery and revolt besiege the capital, while a brooding menace stalks the corridors of the Palace of Westminster.

​When Detective Stephen Lavender is called in to investigate a highway robbery and a cold-blooded murder, both cases take a dangerous and disturbing personal twist.


Meanwhile, Lavender’s trusted deputy, Constable Ned Woods, finds a mysterious severed foot washed up on Greenwich Beach. They soon realise that these ancient bones are more sinister than they first appeared.

With Bow Street Police Office undermanned and in disarray, it will take all of Lavender and Woods’s wit and skill—with help from Lavender’s spirited wife, Magdalena—to unmask the fiend behind the mayhem, restore peace and justice to the beleaguered city and solve the tragic mystery of the severed foot.

But will they do so in time to foil a plot that threatens to plunge the country into chaos?

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Reviews

“Prepare for rip-roaring adventure…and edge-of-the seat thrills and spills. Charlton brings Regency London vividly to life and puts her reader right in the heart of the action.” —Crime Fiction Lover

"Well written, well researched, informative and thoroughly enjoyable.” —Helen Boyce, The Book Club