When a man's death is ruled an accident, Briggs sees what everyone else missed. The details don't sit right. The timeline doesn't hold. And the people closest to the victim? They're hiding something.
A fall from a balcony should be simple.
It isn't.
As Briggs reconstructs the final moments, small inconsistencies begin to fracture the story—marks that shouldn't be there, angles that don't make sense, silence where there should be answers.
In a city where appearances are carefully maintained and secrets are buried deep, Briggs must rely on instinct, precision, and an unshakable patience to uncover what really happened.
In 2009 A. J. Wright won the 2010 Dundee International Fiction Prize for his Victorian murder mystery Act of Murder. His writing is inspired by his two major interests: all things Victorian and classic works from the Golden Age of crime fiction. He lives near Wigan.