‘This is just the novel for whiling away a few pleasant evenings with a nice cup of tea’ Publishers Weekly London, 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built, which she names as The Victoria and Albert Museum. Shortly after, Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are called to the site because the dead body of a man, curator Andrew Page, has been found in one of the trenches.
The Queen is determined that nothing will sully the new museum, and by association her beloved Albert’s legacy. But the more Wilson and Fenton dig, the more they discover other potential motives for Page’s murder, some with potentially explosive implications for the Royals and the Government. They will have to tread carefully as someone is determined that they will not uncover any more …
The eighth in the massively popular series of crime novels looking behind the scenes at England’s most celebrated museums and beloved attractions including The Ashmolean, The British Museum, and The Natural History Museum The main character, Detective Daniel Wilson, worked on the Jack the Ripper case - an intriguing twist on a perennially fascinating subject
