To start hunting the most powerful witches—or die at the hands of the Queen of England? Christmas Eve, 1889. In the secret department of Edinburgh police—the Unsolved Cases Division, of a presumably inexplicable and supernatural nature—there are bad days. But today is clearly the worst.
At midnight, the prime minister summons the scandalously famous police inspectors Ian Frey and Nine-Fingered McGree and tells them: Queen Victoria, the most powerful woman in the country, wants them dead. Because they killed her beloved mediums… To earn a pardon, Frey and McGree must go on a mission equal to a death sentence. And along the way, find out what secret the palace is truly hiding. A gripping Victorian detective story with a duet of charismatic—and devilishly charming—sleuths…