Clockwork Alchemist

Arhyen considers himself London's finest thief. Sent to steal a journal from Fairfax Breckinridge, the city's greatest alchemist, he instead finds Breckinridge dead with a dagger in his back — and Liliana, the alchemist's automaton daughter, who claims to have a soul of her own. Pulled into a murder investigation neither of them wanted, Arhyen and Liliana have to work with a wayward detective and a mysterious masked man to find out who killed Fairfax, and why, before they become the next targets. Set in a gaslamp Victorian London where alchemy stands in for science, this is the first book in the Thief's Apprentice series.