Nominated for the Anthony Award and the CWC Arthur Ellis Award - Best First Novel Category... The Time is mid-winter, 1895; the place, Victorian Toronto and the naked corpse of a young girl is discovered in a laneway. It is up to acting-detective William Murdoch to determine the girl's identity and why she died in such miserable circumstances. His investigation takes him across the class lines of a society still deeply British in character and into the real lives hidden behind the chenil ...