In 1893 London, a seamstress falls to her death from the window of a prominent home, a cryptic phrase stitched into her skin. Why did she jump, and how is her death connected to the rash of young women who've gone missing under mysterious, perhaps even supernatural, circumstances? Surly Inspector Cutter is on the case, saddled with a bumbling lovesick sidekick, and trailed by a plucky female journalist looking to give voice to the silenced victims. Eventually, all the winding, fog-shrouded roads lead to the house on Vesper Sands in this deliciously eerie and brilliantly executed Victorian-era mystery.