Music hall artiste Kitty Peck has inherited ‘Paradise’, a criminal empire on the banks of the Thames, from her grandmother, the fearsome Lady Ginger. Now a reluctant ‘Baron’ – a member of the black-hearted criminal cabal controlling the City – Kitty must take the reins of Paradise and make it her own – but that’s easier said than done.
Kitty’s world is crumbling.
The music halls are failing and obscene graffiti – graphic images of Kitty herself – are appearing throughout the East End. Once she was once dubbed the Limehouse Linnet, adored by all, but now, like her grandmother before her, she is a figure of dread.
Haunted by a secret she can never confess and threatened by the Barons, Kitty finds herself increasingly isolated.
When the mutilated body of a mysterious red-haired woman is fished from the Thames, a woman who carried a note from Kitty’s missing brother, it becomes all too clear that performing night after night in a fragile cage strung 60ft above the heads of the music hall punters was easy.
The good old days are over!
As the cruel net cast by the Barons tightens around her and shadows from the past darken the present, can the Limehouse Linnet protect herself and those she holds dear?