Description
Book Synopsis''Superb'' Sunday Express
A gripping and darkly atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London, perfect for fans of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The Strangers Diaries and The Silent Companions.
What secret grips Corvus Hall?
Visiting the Great Exhibition to view the wax anatomical models of the famous but reclusive Dr Silas Strangeway, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find a severed hand, perfectly dissected and laid out amongst the exhibits. Assuming it to be a prank by medical students they return it to Dr Strangeway, who works at Corvus Hall, a private anatomy school run by Dr Alexander Crowe - once one of Edinburgh''s most revered anatomists. Jem''s persistence reveals that a body does indeed lie in the school''s mortuary, minus its right hand. The body has no provenance. More macabre still, its face has been dissected making identification impossible.
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Trade Review
Superb * Sunday Express *
Praise for E. S. Thomson:
Vivid, pungent and perilous -- Chris Brookmyre
Gothic. Gory. Glorious . . . E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, and unapologetically queer -- Kirsty Logan
Evocative . . . brilliant plotting -- Rebecca Griffiths
Here's a tale of Victorian London to freeze your blood on a cold winter's night -- Evening Telegraph
A marvellous, vivid book -- Janet Ellis
Jem Flockhart is a marvel . . . This vivid journey into the dark side of the human soul is a thoroughly engrossing tale -- Mary Paulson Ellis
You can almost feel the evil miasma rising from the page * Kirkus Reviews *
This outstanding debut historical enthrals with its meticulously researched details * Library Journal *
To be savoured -- Lesley McDowell * The National *
From the first page to the last, I enjoyed every brilliantly written, and often hideous, detail . . . A splendid read * Cambridge Magazine *
