The Necropolis Railway

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 231. Pictorial wraps. Author's Note.

The first Jim Stringer murder mystery featuring the Brookwood Necropolis Railway. A historical detective novel, set in Edwardian London, featuring the travails of a railwayman turned railway policeman, who finds himself transferred to work on the mysterious graveyard line. The books have been shortlisted for a number of Crime Writers' Association Awards, with the seventh in the ten-book series, The Somme Stations (2011), garlanded with the Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime.

"Guaranteed to make the flesh creep and the skin crawl, a masterful novel about a mad, clanking, fog-bound world." –Simon Winchester