Mortal Current

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London. November, 1867.

A dead man is found on the Wapping mudflats with a burn no ordinary weapon could leave.

Thomas Fenwick spent twenty years in the Metropolitan Police before Hyde Park gave him reason to leave. Now he works from Shadwell, where the river supplies him with more work than he wants and fewer answers than he needs.

The first body bears a precise burn pressed into the sternum. A second follows. Then Fenwick finds a brass disc at the scene, cut with channels whose purpose he cannot read. Someone is using electrical apparatus to take something from the living. Fenwick means to learn what, and who is paying for it.