Mummy Brown

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Mummy Brown

Artemis lives on the streets of London, getting by on her wits, her light fingers, and part-time work cleaning up crime scenes. She thought she’d seen it all, but her latest clean-up is brutal: an artist has been torn apart in his studio, and his limbs used to paint strange symbols on the walls in blood and gristle.

London, 1841

Artemis lives on the streets of London, getting by on her wits, her light fingers, and part-time work cleaning up crime scenes. She thought she’d seen it all, but her latest clean-up is brutal: an artist has been torn apart in his studio, and his limbs used to paint strange symbols on the walls in blood and gristle.

Things soon get worse, the mutilated bodies pile up, and Artemis begins to suspect that the violent deaths all have something in common: ancient Egyptian mummies.

Artemis knows that wealthy Victorians love mummies. They’ve imported thousands of them for display, for entertainment, and for fertilizer; they grind them up and paint with them; and, most horribly, they swallow them as medicine.

Now, it seems that something is out to get revenge for the ill-treatment of ancient Egyptians. A powerful mummy has escaped its sarcophagus and is tearing its way through Victorian society, killing people in hideous ways.

Artemis has no great love for the wealthy, and is happy to leave the mummy to it, until her children are threatened. To save them, she must battle supernatural forces that she doesn’t understand, as well as the ever-present pimps and street predators, who she understands only too well.

Fans of Victorian history, creature horror and gore will enjoy Mummy Brown, the first in the London Fog series of supernatural thrillers.