The Moon’s More Feeble Fire

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Soho, 1930. The death of a prostitute barely registers at Scotland Yard, filed away as something expected and easily forgotten. But when a second similar murder surfaces, and then a third, the pattern forces itself into view.

Cuthbert and his team are drawn into a nightmarish world of people trafficking, prostitution and drug use, reaching far beyond the streets and into the habits of the upper classes. Each step of the investigation asks them to look harder at what is being protected, and who is being discarded.

Cuthbert brings all his forensic skills to a case that refuses to settle into sense. Clues fray, assumptions shift, and answers arrive late, if they arrive at all. Only a faded photograph offers a final way in, holding a tragic secret that has been waiting to be seen.