Mysterious and dangerous happenings!

A Rage of Souls (Simon Westow Mystery #8) by Chris Nickson       

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Simon Westow, the thief taker is puzzled.

He’d been hired by James Barton to find Frederick Fox. Fox had lured Barton in to trusting him to sell a gold bracelet of his wife’s. Fox seemed trustworthy until the day he wasn’t and absconded with the bracelet. Simon captured him and Fox was for the gallows.

He was due to be hanged but at the eleventh hour was pardoned. No one could work out why. A number of theories were put forward. 

Now surprisingly, James Barton employs Simon again. Fox has been following him. Barton  wants Simon to keep him safe

However Fox and his wife seem to have disappeared. Is James imagining things or is something else at play?

Neither Simon, his wife Rosie, nor Jane and Sally, the young women who worked with him can find the Fox’s.

Sally has been assisting a group of children who live on the streets. They’ve been terrorised by some young upper class men including Barton’s son Andrew.

Jane and Sally plan to repel the men. They’re successful, but the men return and trap Sally, beating her badly.

There’s a curious relationship between Andrew Barton and Fox’s wife. When she’s found dead matters become graver. Bodies begin to pile up.

Westow’s family, including those he’s brought into the fold, is growing and changing. Wonderful to follow their lives. 

A very slippery mystery for Simon and his rag tag group of assistants. They win through, but as Alice says things are, “curiouser and curiouser!”

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Many thanks to the author and publisher.