Author: ambroseparry

There’s a fine line between kill and cure.Edinburgh, 1849. Despite Edinburgh being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson. A whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances.Simpson’s … protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron’s name. But with Raven battling against the dark side of his own nature, and Sarah endeavouring to expand her own medical knowledge…

In Victorian Edinburgh, medical student Will Raven and housemaid Sarah Fisher are drawn into a gruesome mystery as they investigate the sudden appearance of corpses across the city. “A rip-roaring tale” (Ian Rankin) that “won’t let you go until the final page” (#1 Sunday Times bestselling author S. J. Parris).