Lady of ashes

As Violet Morgan struggles to establish a good reputation for the undertaking business, in Victorian London, that her husband, Graham, has largely abandoned, Graham becomes involved in a scheme to sell arms to the South during the American Civil War because of his hatred of America, but when Violet recieves the commission to undertake the funeral for a friend of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Graham disappears and Violet begins investigating a series of deaths among the poor.