Murder in Park Lane

London, 1812. At a fashionable
address in leafy Mayfair, a far cry from Detective Stephen Lavender’s
usual haunts, a man is found dead in his room. He has been brutally
stabbed, but the door is locked from the inside and the weapon is
missing.

The deceased is David MacAdam, an Essex businessman with
expensive tastes. As Lavender and Constable Ned Woods travel between
London and Chelmsford seeking to understand MacAdam’s final hours and
unearth the grisly truth, they uncover a tangled web of deceit behind
his stylish facade. The unusual circumstances of MacAdam’s death are
nothing compared to the shady nature of his life and it seems the house
on Park Lane is at the heart of a dark conspiracy.

But when a
second body turns up, everything they think they’ve learned is thrown
into doubt. Can Lavender and Woods find out who’s behind these shocking
murders before more lives are ruined?