Whispers Through the Wire: A Victorian Murder Mystery

Manchester, 1900. The telephone is a modern miracle. Then a voice on the wire begins to promise murder.She is the city's only female private detective, and Cotton City never lets her forget it. She has fought for every case, every client, every scrap of respect in a world certain that detection is no work for a woman.Her newest client arrives trembling, having received a threatening telephone call unlike anything she has heard: flat, cold, and strangely mechanical. Soon the calls are spreading across the city. Then people begin to disappear.With the police overwhelmed and unwilling to listen, the young detective alone stands between the voice and its victims. But as she follows the whispers through fog bound streets, humming mills, and the tangled wires above Manchester, the case begins to pull at the darkness of her own past, and the voice on the wire seems to know exactly where to find her.The first novel in The Cotton City Murders series. For readers of Veronica Speedwell, the Lady Sherlock mysteries, and Stalking Jack the Ripper.Remarkably, Whispers Through the Wire was written and illustrated by fourteen year old Australian author Kaia Kingston.