Towards the end the tension fairly gets you by the throat' Sunday Express 'I longed to know what would happen next. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby Tom, the busker who rescues her truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives.ĭispossessed and outcast, those who come to inhabit Jarvis's schoolhouse are gradually brought closer together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's forbidding and dangerous Undergound. Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London's Underground. when the unravelling takes place, it is brilliantly unexpected and original' The Times Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award King Solomon's Carpet - a prize-winning crime classic from bestselling author Barbara Vine
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