Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)

by Sherry Thomas

You are not a tool to be deployed at the whim of some reckless master, and you don’t have to prove your worth by leaping at every task other people are too afraid to do.

Perhaps God has been paying attention after all. Perhaps all wicked men should be afraid.”

His had been the passage of a legendary comet, lighting up entire skies. But comets, however brilliant and extraordinary, are only visitors. They arrive from some mysterious region in the heavens, and disappear there again, leaving behind only dazzling memories.