I saw this in a Barnes & Noble a couple of weeks ago and thought it looked like an interesting steampunk-ish book. It turned out to be a moderately interesting period murder mystery with the significant twists that the crime wasn't as simple as "murder" and the period wasn't as simple as turn of the century Victorian England. Instead, the crime was stealing the departings souls of the dying, and the period was a steampunk equivalent of 1900, where Queen Victoria was coming to Liverpool to inaugurate the "Transatlantic Span", an enormous suspension bridge that extended from England to America - including over a thousand towers.
The story and the setting was a very creative one, and I ended up enjoying it.
