A stuffed bear, a pet mouse, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens… Full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the curious things men do to get – and keep – what they want.
August 1863. Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, and his young widow disappears. Three years later his friend James Dixey, a celebrated naturalist, is found dead on his grounds with his throat torn out. Are these deaths connected…
