And the more they investigate, the more they fear that they may never be allowed to leave. Day and Hammersmith soon realize that they, too, are in over their heads. In addition, a mysterious epidemic is killing off the inhabitants, and the village itself is sinking into the coal mines below. The New York Times Book Review said of The Yard, If Charles Dickens isn’t somewhere clapping his handsWilkie Collins surely is. Superstitions abound in the intertwined histories of the villagers, including a local legend about a monster some claim to have seen. But Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith have stepped into something much more bizarre and complicated than expected. When three members of a prominent family disappear from the Midlands-and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird’s nest-Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad is called in. Grecian is the author of several bestselling thrillers, including THE SAINT OF WOLVES AND BUTCHERS, and five novels featuring Scotland Yard's Murder Squad: THE YARD, THE BLACK COUNTRY, THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP, THE HARVEST MAN, and LOST AND GONE FOREVER, plus the original Murder Squad ebook, THE BLUE GIRL.

Inhabitants call it the “Black Country”-and with good reason. Alex Grecians The Black Country sees the Scotland Yard Murder Squad return in a gruesome historical thriller.When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a birds nest - the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yards new Mur. The New York Times Book Review said of The Yard, “If Charles Dickens isn’t somewhere clapping his hands…Wilkie Collins surely is.” Now Alex Grecian returns with his new novel of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad-and it’s a gripper. The small mining town of Blackhampton is a far cry from the bustling streets of Victorian London, but when three members of a prominent family go missing and a human eyeball is found in a bird’s.

The Black Country by Alex Grecian