Angel of Whitechapel
(2026)(The fifth book in the Coventry Adams Mysteries series)
A novel by Steven Henry
London, 1871
A terrible traffic in female flesh runs through London’s back alleys. Procurers lure vulnerable girls into shame and degradation from which death is the only escape. Coventry Adams is one of the lucky few to have clawed her way to freedom. Now clinging to a precarious middle-class existence, she struggles to make ends meet to provide for herself and the young boy she has taken under her wing. To all appearances she is brave, resourceful, and capable.
But demons lurk in Coventry’s past. A deformed pimp seeks revenge for the scars she gave him. Brutal thugs prowl the city’s underbelly for fresh victims. Worst of all, her own memories betray her, stealing her strength as old wounds are reopened.
When Detective Finn Farrell brings a desperate mother to her door, with a tale of a missing daughter, Coventry refuses at first. But she is drawn inexorably back into the underworld. Amid the sin and darkness of the Whitechapel slums, a fallen woman embarks on a desperate quest for salvation; if not for herself, for another innocent soul.
Genre: Historical Mystery
A terrible traffic in female flesh runs through London’s back alleys. Procurers lure vulnerable girls into shame and degradation from which death is the only escape. Coventry Adams is one of the lucky few to have clawed her way to freedom. Now clinging to a precarious middle-class existence, she struggles to make ends meet to provide for herself and the young boy she has taken under her wing. To all appearances she is brave, resourceful, and capable.
But demons lurk in Coventry’s past. A deformed pimp seeks revenge for the scars she gave him. Brutal thugs prowl the city’s underbelly for fresh victims. Worst of all, her own memories betray her, stealing her strength as old wounds are reopened.
When Detective Finn Farrell brings a desperate mother to her door, with a tale of a missing daughter, Coventry refuses at first. But she is drawn inexorably back into the underworld. Amid the sin and darkness of the Whitechapel slums, a fallen woman embarks on a desperate quest for salvation; if not for herself, for another innocent soul.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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