Dark Threads of Vengeance(2016)

William Savage

The dark alleys of Georgian Norwich were no place for a wealthy merchant and banker to be, dead or alive. Especially one noted for his puritanical outlook. Join Mr Foxe in another rumbustious investigation as he unravels a tale as dark and treacherous as the backstreets themselves.Mr Ashmole Foxe, Georgian bookseller and confidential investigator, has a new to find the murderer of a prominent Norwich merchant and banker before his businesses collapse and the city is crippled by financial panic. What could the puritanical and rigidly teetotal Joseph Morrow have done to provoke someone to strangle him? Why was his body, reeking of brandy, found on board a wherry, moored in a rough area haunted by sailors and prostitutes? What is the secret linking one of the the city’s grandest merchant houses to the wretches who drag out a brief existence in the slums and backstreets of the city? As Foxe probes deeper, he finds disturbing evidence of cruelty, callousness and blackmail that will shock all those who knew the man. Aided by his rag-tag group of street children, Foxe steadily uncovers a sinister pattern of evil, whose dark threads reach out to snare the guilty parties and exact a fitting vengeance on all concerned.