Murder on the waterways of post-Regency England - 1827, Redditch, Worcestershire. Thomas Potts is despairing of his courtship of Amy Danks. With neither money nor prospects, she will surely look elsewhere. But when the body of a girl is found in the canal, Potts is drawn into the investigation, and he is sure the ‘Leggers’, town outcasts who work on the barges, know something. As more murders ensue, Tom risks everything to get to the truth . . .  
