title: On Copper Street: A Victorian police procedural (A Tom Harper Mystery)
author:  Chris Nickson 
description: This book is very well written and plotted. It all fit together beautifully. This is the first of Mr. Nicksons books that I have read and it certainly wont be my last. I truly enjoyed this book. (Joyce Fox (NetGalley Reviewer))<br /><br />"An outstanding entry in an excellent historical-mystery series that deserves more attention" (<i>Booklist Starred Review</i>)<br /><br />If you have been reading historical fiction but havent discovered Chris Nickson, now is your chance  A huge 5* from me! (NetGalley reviewer)<br /><br /><b><i>"Nicksons crackerjack fifth police procedural set in late-19th-century Leeds"</b></i> (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)
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  ‘Jesus Christ. I found one.’ These words, blurted over the phone to Constable
  Snowy Lane, preoccupied with a ham sandwich and the odds of getting a game
  with the East Fremantle league side on Saturday, signal the beginning of a
  series of events which are to reverberate in his life and shake Perth to its
  foundations. It is 1979, the year of the sesquicentenary and the East and
  South Fremantle grand final. ‘Mr Gruesome’ has taken another victim, and all
  of Perth is rivetted by dark bloom that spreads across the City of Light.
  
  
  Snowy Lane, first as a young cop, then as private detective, finds himself
  inextricably linked with Mr Gruesome, and the human and political power plays
  that unfold against the excess and corruption of the eighties.
  
  
  Footballer, lover, detective, reluctant ‘suburban boy’ Snowy Lane turns his
  gaze on himself and the place of his birth. The bands, the derbies, the pubs,
  the America’s Cup, the entrepreneurs, the politicians, the backroom players,
  t