From the internationally acclaimed author, a stunning gothic
reimagining of the Jekyll and Hyde story in which Captain Edward Hyde,
chief detective of Victorian Edinburgh, investigates a gruesome murder
that may unmask his own darkest secret
Victorian Edinburgh. Captain Edward Henry Hyde is chief detective for
the City of Edinburgh Police; as such, he is responsible for
investigating all murders and serious crimes in the city. Hyde is a
striking but severe-looking man who provokes unease, and often fear, in
those who encounter him. Nevertheless, Edward Hyde is truly a good man
... though he wrestles fiercely with his own unique demons.
When Hyde finds himself at the scene of a heinous murder, with no idea
of how he got there or the events leading up to the discovery, his alarm
is triggered on two levels. First, the crime scene is brutal and
involves the Threefold Death, an ancient Celtic rite of sacrifice
entangled with dark Scottish spiritual mythology. Second, Hyde's
inability to remember any detail of his arrival at the crime scene makes
him immediately fret about the secret he keeps from all but his
physician: He suffers from a rare form of epilepsy that causes him to
lose time--amnesiac absences where he cannot account for his
actions--and nocturnal seizures that manifest themselves as vivid and
lucid dreams.
As Hyde begins his investigation of the murder in a city on edge, he
finds himself not only searching for real world clues, but trying to
unravel the significance of the imagery in the otherworld of his
dreaming. His investigation leads to the very places he fears, but has
never fully imagined.
