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Informationen zum Autor Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of over twenty novels! including Black Widow ! winner of both the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years' experience! whose research for her Master's degree in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this novel was based. @ambroseparry Klappentext Edinburgh, 1847. Women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. With each having their own motive to look deeper into these deaths, Will Raven and Sarah Fisher 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. Zusammenfassung LONGLISTED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR Edinburgh! 1847. City of Medicine! Money! Murder. In Edinburgh's Old Town young women are being found dead! all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. Across the city 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 anaesthesia. It is here that Raven meets housemaid Sarah Fisher! who recognises trouble when she sees it and takes an immediate dislike to him. She has all of Raven's 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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Parry's Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive - and it's a world of pain VAL McDERMID
