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Eighteenth-century anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone travels to the
English countryside to unravel a tangled web of mystery, medicine,
and murder in this captivating new novel from Tessa Harris.
A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of
Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise peaceful evening with the
terrible sight of his body shaking and heaving, eyes wild with
horror. Many of the villagers believe the devil himself has entered
Joseph Makepeace, the latest victim of a great fog that darkens the
skies over England like a biblical plague. When Joseph s son and
daughter are found murdered their heads bashed in by a shovel the
town s worst suspicions are confirmed: evil is abroad, and needs to
be banished.
A brilliant man of science, Dr. Thomas Silkstone is not one to
heed superstition. But when he arrives at the estate of the lovely
widow Lady Lydia Farrell, he finds that it s not just her grain and
livestock at risk. A shroud of mystery surrounds Lydia s lost
child, who may still be alive in a workhouse. A natural disaster
fills the skies with smoke and ash, clogging the lungs of all who
breathe it in. And the grisly details of a father s crime compel
Dr. Silkstone to look for answers beyond his medical books between
the devil and the deep blue sea.
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