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Victor Hart: Volume 1 (winner of 1st prize Litarium Steampunk Competition)

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Reads 143,275
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Parts 21
Time 4h 30m

Wattys winner

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In a Futurist-Victorian London, Ex-Carnie Victor Hart makes his living as a dinner party entertainer and mountebank, using the skills taught to him by his Romani mother – the Patterns. When tragedy strikes a wealthy friend, Victor Hart puts his skills to use in an alternative manner.
This Steampunk London has its fair share of psychos, sickos, and sadists, and it takes a special kind of mind to hunt them. Victor sees human behaviour in a way few others can understand but only as an outsider; certain parts of his humanity are missing and that disturbs him.
As he solves each seemingly unrelated case, a dark pattern slowly begins to reveal itself threatening the heart of the British Empire and even what we feel makes us human.
A Steampunk-detective-noir, darker than most, the first volume features four thrilling cases; the first novel in a Duology.All Rights Reserved

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