Voices of the Dead

Beschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2024<BR><BR>EDINBURGH, 1853.<BR>In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . .<BR><BR>Body parts have been found at Surgeons' Hall, and they're not anatomy specimens. Dr Will Raven is able to identify a prime suspect, but the individual he seeks happens to be an accomplished actor, a man of a thousand faces and a renowned master of disguise.<BR><BR> Meanwhile, mesmerism, spiritualism and other unexplained phenomena are taking hold of hearts and minds.

Frustrated in her own medical ambitions, Sarah Fisher sees opportunity in a new therapeutic field not already closed off to women. With the lines between science and spectacle dangerously blurred, the stage is set for a grand and deadly illusion . . .

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