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The Last Dance at Newgate. The Newgate Cipher Mysteries, #5
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- ISBN8235494244
- EAN9798235494244
- Date de parution04/08/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
The Gallows Dancer has promised London one final performance. The condemned man has prepared a message she was never meant to survive. For years, Ianthe Rooke has danced outside Newgate Prison on execution mornings, carrying the final words of condemned men and women through a cipher concealed in her steps, gestures and costume. Now she intends to abandon the role that made her notorious. But the prisoner awaiting the scaffold is not the man named in the official record.
As Ianthe begins her last commissioned dance, he moves his bound hands in an older version of the cipher-one created by the travelling theatrical company of Ianthe's mother, Eleanor Rooke. His message overturns everything Ianthe believes about the murder for which Eleanor was executed. Eleanor did not kill the woman. She built the lie that protected the man who did. Ianthe disappears before barrister Vincent Ormesby can stop her from pursuing the truth alone.
Their search leads through abandoned theatres, altered court reports, hidden ledgers and the remains of a shattered stage mirror-the same mirror that scarred Ianthe during her mother's arrest. Then a surviving witness is murdered before she can reveal what happened. The evidence points toward Sir Dorian Kest, the wealthy philanthropist whose acquittal established Vincent's career. Vincent has long concealed his own doubts about that verdict.
To expose Kest now, he must publicly admit that ambition and fear once persuaded him to remain silent. Yet the obvious guilty man may not be the person killing to preserve his name. As another life is placed in danger, Ianthe and Vincent must decide whether protection can become another form of control-and whether trust is possible between two people who have each withheld truths capable of destroying the other.
The Last Dance at Newgate is an atmospheric Victorian historical mystery featuring a coded final message, a fair-play murder investigation, morally complicated suspects, courtroom secrets and an adversarial slow-burn romance.
As Ianthe begins her last commissioned dance, he moves his bound hands in an older version of the cipher-one created by the travelling theatrical company of Ianthe's mother, Eleanor Rooke. His message overturns everything Ianthe believes about the murder for which Eleanor was executed. Eleanor did not kill the woman. She built the lie that protected the man who did. Ianthe disappears before barrister Vincent Ormesby can stop her from pursuing the truth alone.
Their search leads through abandoned theatres, altered court reports, hidden ledgers and the remains of a shattered stage mirror-the same mirror that scarred Ianthe during her mother's arrest. Then a surviving witness is murdered before she can reveal what happened. The evidence points toward Sir Dorian Kest, the wealthy philanthropist whose acquittal established Vincent's career. Vincent has long concealed his own doubts about that verdict.
To expose Kest now, he must publicly admit that ambition and fear once persuaded him to remain silent. Yet the obvious guilty man may not be the person killing to preserve his name. As another life is placed in danger, Ianthe and Vincent must decide whether protection can become another form of control-and whether trust is possible between two people who have each withheld truths capable of destroying the other.
The Last Dance at Newgate is an atmospheric Victorian historical mystery featuring a coded final message, a fair-play murder investigation, morally complicated suspects, courtroom secrets and an adversarial slow-burn romance.
