Death in the Stairwell

When a young woman is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in a Bloomsbury boarding house, suspicion falls on her quiet suitor-Isaac Thorne, a man Clara Wetherly knows could never be capable of such violence.

But with Scotland Yard moving swiftly toward trial and Inspector Redgrave under pressure to accept the case as closed, Clara must decide whether to step back... or to risk her growing reputation by stepping in.

Drawn into the tangled lives of the boarding house residents, Clara begins to suspect that what happened on those narrow stairs is far more complicated-and far more dangerous-than anyone wants to admit.