A review by cleverruhs
The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins

3.0

A Dickensian story about a boy who escapes the cruelties of the city, only to find that dark secrets lurk in even the most harmless of villages. Ludlow Fitch, running from a horrible past, finds himself in the village of Pagus Parvus. Arriving that same night is a mysterious pawnbroker named Joe Zabbidou. Zabbidou does not deal just in the buying and selling of used items--he deals in secrets. And as Ludlow joins Zabbidou in collecting and protecting the secrets of the villagers, Ludlow struggles with his own dark memories.