The Ashes of London

Andrew Taylor

Having read it

★★★☆☆

A sort of good read but it seemed to get lost quite a bit in its own exposition (and its own modified details of history) rather than succinctly telling the story; a mystery trying to be mysterious which all ended up being a bit drawn out, kind of like a not-very-good-historically-based-TV-drama!

A good passage

It was one of the most notorious thoroughfares [Ram Alley] of Alsatia. It lay on the western side of Whitefriars, near to the Temple where the lawyers nested like magpies and grew rich from the follies of men.