Plague Pits & River Bones Quotes

“between Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn Road. He’s a tall fellow – Vickery has put a description in his report. Just keep an eye on him and the company he keeps. The man”
― Karen Charlton, Plague Pits & River Bones

“Lavender deserved his own Moriarty,”
― Karen Charlton, Plague Pits & River Bones

“I was fascinated to learn that the real-life Stephen Lavender, on whom my fictional hero is based, was involved in the aftermath of the shocking murder. He, along with fellow Principal Officers John Vickery and Harry Adkins, gathered the evidence required to convict Bellingham. The connection Vickery made between the pistol ball used to kill Bellingham and the small machine used to make it which he found in Bellingham’s lodgings, is often cited as the first example in a UK courtroom of ballistic forensic analysis”
― Karen Charlton, Plague Pits & River Bones

“Had he passed on his infection to Magdalena?”
― Karen Charlton, Plague Pits & River Bones

“Woods paused for a moment and wondered why cheerful young children like this lad and his Eddie turned into such surly brutes when they got older.”
― Karen Charlton, Plague Pits & River Bones