A Hangman for Ghosts: A Historical Mystery

" We are transported. We are consigned to the ends of the Earth. And we are therefore as good as dead to the realm and its judges. There can be no hope of reprieve..."

Gabriel Carver, the convict hangman of Sydney Prison, knows that none of his kind may depart Australia' s penal colony without the system' s leave. Then three people are murdered, seemingly to protect the " Rats' Line," an illicit path to freedom that exists only in the fevered imaginations of transported felons. But why kill...