The Great Calamity

In mid-19th century Britain, a catastrophic event occurs from which ripples will spread throughout Europe and beyond.
Twenty years later, a writer doing research into the tragedy is murdered in London, a cabinet-maker dies in a workshop accident in Leith, Scotland, and a former journalist is run over by a horse-drawn omnibus. The writer’s daughter sets off for Scotland, where she and the cabinet-maker’s son try to work out the connection between the deaths of their fathers and seek an explan...