![]() ![]() ![]() But whispers from her past slowly begin to poison her new life and both she and Rebekah are lured into the most sinister of investigations, dragging them into the blackest heart of a city where something more depraved than either of them could ever imagine is lurking. When Hester is thrust into the world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life under the tutelage of the fiercely intelligent and mysterious Rebekah Brock. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible. She lives in Derbyshire with her civil partner, two children and a Siamese cat called Antigone. Having left school at 16, she turned to writing after 28 years of working for a local bank. ![]() Scarcely a week passes without the occurrence of an incident of this type' - The Morning Herald, Tuesday 13 September 1831 Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and the city's vulnerable poor are disappearing from the streets. THE WICKED COMETH is Laura Carlin’s first novel. ' 'This newspaper has taken note that the past month has been remarkable for the prevalence of cases where men, women and children are declared missing. 'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sortīecause we are the bad sort. ![]()
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