The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor - progress report

2024 update:

 

The Grandville books were set in an imaginary Belle Epoch. This is set 23 years earlier, in a late-19th century Victorian setting, taking place before the steam technology revolution in a London of hansom cabs and pea-soupers during the last days of the French occupation of Britain against a background of ongoing terrorist atrocities. 

The protagonist and narrator is Detective Inspector Stamford Hawksmoor of Scotland Yard, LeBrock's mentor, first introduced in Grandville Force Majeure.

Bryan has completed 140 of the 172 pages in an atmospheric ink line and monochrome sepia watercolour style. The book will be published by Jonathan Cape, November 2025.