Mind of a Killer

London 1882. Alec Lonsdale a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the post-mortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered its throat cut and then a third Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague Hulda Friederichs begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society.