The Theakston\'s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year-winning author is back, setting this latest novel in a cholera-stricken 1840s Hull.
Against this backdrop, former soldier Mesach Stone, while working as a bodyguard for an academic hunting for the Bones of apostle Simon the Zealot, is forced to reconsider ideas of mortality and revenge after the murder of a woman he briefly loved..
The Theakston\'s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year-winning author is back, setting this latest novel in a cholera-stricken 1840s Hull