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Edinburgh, 1847. City of medicine, money, murder.
Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr. Simpson.
Simpson’s patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the new medical frontier of anesthesia. It is here that Raven meets housemaid Sarah Fisher, who recognizes trouble when she sees it and takes an immediate dislike to him. She has all of his intelligence but none of his privileges, in particular his medical education.
With each having their own motive to look deeper into these deaths, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest shadows of Edinburgh’s underworld, where they will have to overcome their differences if they are to make it out alive.
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“A rip-roaring tale of murder amid the medical experiments of nineteenth-century Edinburgh. The book brings both city and period to colorful life and is a joy to read.”
— The Guardian (London)
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“Mystery plotting at its highest level.”
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“Historical fiction at its most enjoyable, with facts smoothly blended into a clever plot.”
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“A gritty portrayal of the early days of medical experimentation…a solid medical-history mystery.”
— Booklist
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About the Narrators
Bryan Dick is an English actor who has starred in numerous productions, both on stage and on screen, in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has also worked extensively with BBC Radio.
Louise Brealey, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, studied history at Cambridge University before studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Manhattan. On television, she appeared in the long-running medical drama Casualty on BBC One in 2002, appearing in ninety-six episodes. Afterwards, she appeared in the BBC serialization of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, as well as Hotel Babylon, Law & Order: UK, Ripper Street, and in all series of Sherlock as Molly Hooper.