Garden Of Sins

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In November 1890 London, crime scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett and her husband, Detective Sergeant Barrett, find themselves in a precarious situation after a train crash leads them to a strangled woman. Their investigation into her identity takes them to Cremorne Gardens, a disreputable riverside amusement park filled with carnival attractions and oddities. This case proves to be one of their most challenging, with suspects including a dwarf, a female acrobat, and even a member of the Royal Family. The police commissioner has deemed the case top-secret due to the royal connection, forcing Sarah and her team—Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly—to work discreetly while evading the press and public scrutiny. Complications arise as Hugh recovers from an injury, Mick navigates a romance with a psychic, and Barrett's past resurfaces with an old flame. Concurrently, Sarah's father, Benjamin Bain, faces trial for a decades-old rape and murder of a teenage girl, Ellen Casey. As the media frenzy escalates, Sarah grapples with her father's claims of innocence. The trial and the investigation into the murder on the train intertwine, revealing dangerous secrets lurking behind Cremorne Gardens' facade. Will the truth about her father and the case lead to shocking revelations?