In late 18th century London, dying artist Henry Grace plans to atone for unspeakable crimes he committed while a member of a hell-fire club in an extraordinary way which threatens to bring down the establishment. Secreted in the attic of his house in Leicester Fields, Grace is painting a coded, epic masterpiece which is intended to incriminate the elite and powerful of London. When fiery female apprentice Michel Angelo enlists Grub Street journalist Morris 'Mouse' Malone to investigate the picture, deadly forces are unleashed. Among those whose cages they rattle is the darkly charismatic Osiris De'Ath, whose Faustian deal with the young Henry Grace has set in motion a chain of events which will lead to subterranean atrocities and to murder.In Leicester Fields is set in the boisterous, dangerous city of Hogarth and Rowlandson, where buzzing coffee houses are the internet of their day and nascent tabloid newspapers spread real and fake news. Readers are escorted on a Baedeker's tour through bustling Georgian London, from its buzzing coffee shops and artists' studios to the stark wards of the Foundling Hospital, grim Newgate gaol and the public gallows at Tyburn. I live in Suffolk, UK and work as a magazine journalist. My first novel, 'The Snake Oil Dickens Man' was published by 4th Estate in 1998. 'The Edge of the Crowd' was published – also by 4th Estate - in 2001. My new e-book is a comic novel called 'Tortoise'.
