The Hellfire Conspiracy

This was the best book in the series thus far... and that is saying something since I guessed who the killer was immediately after they were introduced. I found the story a lot more engaging than the previous books in the series due to the fact that character growth was actually *present* in this on......more

The Hellfire Conspiracy (2007) is the fourth entry in Will Thomas's excellent historical mystery series set in Victorian London. The intellectual, yet physically strong inquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn, a former Oxford scholar who was falsely imprisoned, are clearly cast......more

London in the reign of Queen Victoria was a magical place in many respects. It was, for example, a city of great wealth, of cultural significance, and the seat of a vast empire. It was also, however, a place where hundreds of thousands of people lived in dirty, dangerous, unhealthy conditions; where p......more

Each book is better than the last This one is really dark, very scary, especially considering how accurate the history is of the times in question. My admiration for these characters grows. It’s well written, though not typical, but even the unconventional style grows on me. Starting the next right n......more

Author Will Thomas easily transports the reader into 19th century London alongside his characters Cyrus Barker, a private inquiry agent, and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn. I can feel the grit of the streets these two often frequent as they work their investigations. All of the books in the series are......more