The Dastardly Miss Lizzie

In the third Electric Empire novel, Dr Eliza Jekyll must turn to her dark side, Miss Lizzie Hyde, to stop a madman targeting London's most important scientists and sorcerers terrorising the city with dark magic.

Being two people in one body brings its own problems: Eliza's rebellious alter ego Lizzie is becoming wilder, threatening Eliza's reputation and her marriage to the investigator Remy Lafayette. With England facing war and Remy away on secretive missions, Eliza pursues a serial killer whose victims are eminent men of science.

Her investigation uncovers forbidden research, hidden laboratories, and a cabal of inventors whose work could transform the world or destroy it — while turning up answers about her own past. Viola Carr's series is a steampunk fantasy set in a gritty alternate Victorian London, with echoes of Stevenson and Wells.