Book 2 in the award-winning Anna Kronberg series.
”…provocative and original…” Peter Kavanagh, CBC Radio Producer”…the new dream team of detective literature.” KrimiLese”…a formidable dark-romantic conspiracy novel. A duel of two deduction monsters.” Die Welt“Best Sherlock Holmes Mystery 2014” German Sherlock Holmes SocietyLondon 1889. A dead man is found floating in the city’s … Sherlock Holmes Society
London 1889. A dead man is found floating in the city’s waterworks. Fearing an epidemic, the Metropolitan Police call upon bacteriologist Dr Anton Kronberg to examine the body. All signs point toward cholera having killed the man…but for faint marks around wrists and ankles.
Evidence for a crime is weak, and the police lose interest in the case. But Kronberg suspects that the dead man’s final days had been steeped in cruelty. Soon, a second victim is found, and Kronberg gets embroiled in a web of abduction, abuse, and murder.
But catching a killer and staying alive would be easier if the doctor didn’t have secrets of…her own.
Warning: medical procedures are depicted without apology.
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Loved this one. Awesome series!
Mostly that it was a Sherlock Holmes interaction that was as easy to read as Sherlock. Innovative story line and a quick read and open ending promising more similar stories in the future.
The main characters in this book are bacteriologist Anton Kronberg and Sherlock Holmes. However, Anton Kronberg is more than Anton Kronberg. He’s also Anna Kronberg, a brilliant and feisty MD and bacteriologist who spends her working days disguised as a man, the only way she could possibly do the work at which she excels. Medicine and science …