1849年,前女僕費雪已經離開辛普森博士家,此時,愛丁堡街頭突然爆發奇怪的疾病,醫生對這些病患都無計可施,只能看著他們一個個死去,而有謠言傳出,將這一切的源頭指向德高望重的辛普森博士。為了洗清自己老師的嫌疑,瑞文再次找到費雪,兩人聯手追查傳染病背後的隱藏的黑幕…
'Parry's Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive - and it's a world of pain' Val McDermid
'Brilliantly conceived, fiendishly plotted' Mick Herron
SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020
A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 2
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 protégé 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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