Mistress Of The Just Land

New Year’s Day: Through the misty streets of Victorian Edinburgh, an elegant female figure walks the cobblestones – with a certain vengeful purpose. Jean Brash, the Mistress of the Just Land, brings her cool intelligence to solving a murder that took place in her own bawdy-hoose (the best in Edinburgh, and her pride and joy). A prominent judge strangled and left dangling could bring her whole life to ruin, and she didn’t haul herself off the streets to let that come to pass. The search for the killers will take Jean back into her own dark past as she uncovers a web of political and sexual corruption in the high reaches of the Edinburgh establishment, but she has little time before a certain Inspector James McLevy comes sniffing round like a wolf on the prowl…