A New Series from Scott Elliott
Fog, Gas-Lamp Light,
and the Edge of the Impossible
Historical detective noir set in 1867 London — where the age of electricity meets the desperate hunger of those who would use it to cheat death itself.
Read About Mortal Current Book OneThe Sparkpunk Series
London. November, 1867.
The Reform Act has just given the city's workingmen a vote. The Fenians are restless. And somewhere beneath the fog-choked streets, a secret society is using the age's newest wonder — electricity — to do something that should be impossible.
The Sparkpunk Series is historical detective fiction that takes the real science of Victorian electricity and pushes it one step past what polite society would permit. No steam engines. No clockwork fantasy. Just the raw, flickering spark of the galvanic age — and the people willing to kill to control it.
About the SeriesBook One
Bodies on the Thames. A Brass Disc. A Society That Cannot Exist.
Thomas Fenwick left Scotland Yard in disgust and hasn't looked back. He takes the cases the police ignore — missing persons, unmarked bodies, the kind of trouble that ends careers and starts funerals.
When a string of corpses washes up on the mudflats, each marked with the same strange burn, Fenwick is pulled into something far larger than a murder investigation. Something that smells of ozone and old money and the desperate arrogance of men who believe they've unlocked the secret of life itself.
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About the Author
Scott Elliott
Scott Elliott writes historical detective fiction at the intersection of the real and the barely-possible. He is drawn to fog, moral ambiguity, and the kind of history that doesn't make it into textbooks.
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