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Book SynopsisThe 18th-century meets the sharp blade of forensic science...
Eighteenth-century anatomist Dr Thomas Silkstone travels to the English countryside to unravel a tangled web of mystery, medicine, and murder...
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 his 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. When Joseph''s son and daughter are found murdered - 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 as a natural disaster fills the skies with smoke and ash, clogging the lungs of all who breathe it in, the grisly details of a father''s crime compels Dr. Silkstone to look
Trade Review
A real-life natural disaster propels Harris's excellent third Thomas Silkstone mystery . . . Both literally and figuratively atmospheric, this will appeal to fans of Imogen Robertson's series set during the same period. - Booklist
