Review: The Great Stink
London sewer. How exciting can a novel about that be? Pretty exciting, it turns out. First of all, there's the subtitle: A novel of corruption and murder beneath the streets of Victorian London. Then there's the romance: a returned Army vet has a chance to affect one of the biggest infrastructure projects in London history — only murder gets in the way. Then there's Lady. William May survived the horrors of Crimea to return to his family only to experience more hor— Okay, it was Lady that kept me reading. I even broke my own rule of reading ahead (skimming, really) to make sure I could continue reading. You see, I loved Lady almost as much as Tom did. And that is how I knew I liked this book: I was too tense about one of its characters. Plus, it's about government: how much more cool could it be? The other storylines were compelling, too: May's all-too-real experiences with war that caused him such pain, to return to his family a broken man hanging...