In the Kingdom of Mists

"A lovely novel - compulsively readable and beautifully written" Colin Dexter London, 1900: while Monet paints beside the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths. Fledgling diplomat Oliver Craston happens to be present when a horribly mutilated body is found and is unwillingly drawn into the police investigation. The Foreign Office is nervous about his new acquaintances, M. Monet and his son, but a far greater danger stalks the floor above the Monets' hotel suite, given over to a hospital for wounded officers - and across the river in the slums of Lambeth are visions of horror beyond even the imagination of the artist.