title: Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld
author:  Sara Stockbridge 
description: An engaging prose style lifts Stockbridge's debut, a Dickensian thriller set in London in 1888. A menace from the past threatens Whitechapel pickpocket Grace Hammer, who has her hands full raising four children alone. Almost two decades earlier, she stole a ruby necklace from her then employer,Horatio Blunt, who had himself liberated the precious necklace from its rightful owner. Blunt responded by tracking down her family and burning them alive in their home. Now one of Blunt's associates has spotted Grace in London, and she and her children must go on the run. While several of Jack the Ripper's victims have cameo roles, and there are references to some of the murders that terrorized the East End at the time, Ripperologists may be disappointed that the author doesn't develop this connection further. Fans of such neo-Victorian masters as Michael Cox, Charles Palliser and Louis Bayard will find the plot and characterization conventional by comparison. <i>(Sept. 28)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Aerisia: Gateway to the Underworld
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Dedication
  
  
  
  
  
  For my Pa-Pa, H.B. Ferguson, Jr., who for years asked me almost every time he
  saw me if I’d been writing any more stories and then read every single one I
  gave him. I’m happy now to place real novels in his hands.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Prophecy of the Artan
  
  
  
  
  
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