Silent Reckoning

In the winter of 1892, in the fog-shrouded mill town of Thornhaven, the venerable magistrate Sir Aldric Wainwright has spent forty years erasing his pauper origins. When a stray letter threatens to expose his youthful theft and abandonment of a child, he embarks on a desperate crusade to silence every living witness. But as bodies accumulate, the town's new insurance investigator—a widow seeking truth for her dead husband—uncovers a pattern that forces Thornhaven to confront a chilling question: is a society's justice real if it offers no reckoning for the dead?