December, 1889. There have been many bad days in Edinburgh police’s secret subdivision ‘The Commission for the Elucidation of Unsolved Cases Presumably Related to the Odd and Ghostly’.
But today is surely the worst.
Because the exiled English Inspector Ian Frey, and his Scottish boss ‘Nine-Nails’ McGray are summoned to a meeting in the middle of the night with the Prime Minister himself.
And he tells them that Queen Victoria – the most powerful person in the world – wants them both dead.
To be pardoned they must embark on a mission so dangerous that they might be saving Her Majesty the job of executing them. Because this case ties together the dark history of the Pendle witches, with the tragic case of McGray own sister, to a conspiracy within the highest office in the land.
The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel is published on 21 January, 2021.
Oscar was shortlisted for the 2020 HWA Gold Crown Award for his previous Frey & McGray book, The Darker Arts.
