The Art of Dying - A Raven and Fisher Mystery

'Parry's Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive - and it's a world of pain' Val McDermid 'A rip-roaring tale of murder ' Ian Rankin Edinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer. Determined to clear Simpson's name, his protege Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher must plunge into Edinburgh's deadliest streets and find out who or what is behind the deaths. Soon they discover that the cause of the deaths has evaded detection purely because it is so unthinkable.

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The Ambrose Parry novels are as much about medical discovery as the pursuit of wrongdoers, and are a triumph on both counts. Brilliantly conceived, fiendishly plotted and immaculately realised, these thrillers pull off the most difficult double-whammy of all: beneath blood and butchery so real they almost stain the pages lie both heart and soul. Two books in, Sarah and Will's story feels like it's just beginning. Wherever Parry takes them, I'll follow MICK HERRON

Product details

• Authors: Ambrose Parry
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786896735
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-673-5
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Die Morde von Edinburgh; 201 POCHE; A Raven and Fisher Mystery; Die Morde von Edinburgh / A Raven and Fisher Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, Scotland, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, c 1800 to c 1900, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Historical adventure fiction, c 1850 to c 1859