A Corruption of Blood

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from. Across town, Raven finds himself drawn into Edinburgh''s mire when a package containing human remains washes up on the shores of Leith, and an old adversary he has long detested contacts him, pleading for Raven''s help to escape the hangman. Sarah and Raven''s lives seem indelibly woven together as they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood.

Summary

Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh - the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah Fisher

Report

A real slow burner of a novel which is a marvellous tale of murder and deception in Victorian Edinburgh. It handles some difficult subject matter with sensitivity and care and has a real feeling of authenticity Bloody Scotland, McIlvanney Prize Shortlist

Product details

• Authors: Ambrose Parry
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781786899897
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-989-7
• No. of pages: 406
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: A Raven and Fisher Mystery; Die Morde von Edinburgh / A Raven and Fisher Mystery; Raven and Fisher Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Scotland, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, c 1800 to c 1900, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Historical adventure fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, c 1850 to c 1859