The Grimeford Candidate Murders

In the soot-choked alleys of Grimeford, the promise of a teaching post at a charitable school becomes a death sentence. When a series of brutal murders decimates the candidates for the position, consulting detective Alistair Quince is drawn into a world where the desperate poor turn on one another. As Quince unravels a chain of killings born from starvation and hopelessness, he delivers the culprit to justice—only to watch the slums swallow any trace of progress, leaving him with the bitter truth that some chasms are too deep for one man to bridge.