Sorceress of the Strand

London, 1903. The Strand has a new shop, and society cannot stop whispering about the woman who runs it. Madame Sara is beautiful, brilliant, and utterly unknowable, a figure who seems to exist one step outside the world her customers inhabit. But when crimes begin multiplying in her wake like dark prayers answered, two men become obsessed with proving her guilt: Dixon Druce, a private investigator who sees sin in every shadow, and Eric Vandeleur, the police surgeon who treats the wounded and wonders if Madame herself is the wound. What follows is a fever-dream of obsession, deduction, and dangerous fascination as the hunters close in on their prey, only to discover that the line between accusation and admiration has always been dangerously thin. Robert Eustace crafts a gothic sensation novel where the true horror may not be what Madame Sara has done, but what these men are desperate to believe about her.