The Inheritance by Charles Finch
Fiction
Investigator Charles Lennox is surprised to get a plea for help from an old Harrow classmate he hasn’t seen in decades. He’s even more surprised to find that the poor student has turned into one of England’s most illustrious scientists. And that he’s disappeared. He soon tracks down his old friend, but figuring out who is trying to kill him is another story. And as he pursues miscreants through the snow-covered streets of Victorian London—and even through the Houses of Parliament—he begins to uncover a pair of interlocking conspiracies stretching much farther than he had imagined. The latest in a series which started with A Beautiful Blue Death. Good for fans of Anne Perry and Victoria Thompson.