A Most Dangerous Woman

When the mysterious Sarah Tanner opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms on the corner of Leather Lane, her arrival amongst the poor market-traders sets tongues wagging. Few doubt that she has a 'past'; but no-one can possibly predict how it will return to haunt her. When an old friend is brutally murdered by the unlikeliest of assailants, Sarah Tanner is the only witness. Unable to turn to the police, she reluctantly finds herself drawn back into the dark underworld of the Victorian metropolis. Assisted by unlikely friends, dogged by the criminal machinations of 'the greatest gamester, felon, villain, swindler, and scoundrel in London', she must unravel a web of treachery and deceit, gambling her own life upon a desperate quest for justice and vengeance...