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Pegasus Crime
September 2016
On Sale: September 13, 2016
Featuring: Jem Flockhart
400 pages
ISBN: 1681772140
EAN: 9781681772141
Kindle: B01E9EHVS6
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Mystery Historical | Thriller Historical
Set in a crumbling 1850s London infirmary, a richly
atmospheric Victorian crime novel where murder is the price
to be paid for secrets kept. Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting
the future, St. Saviour’s Infirmary awaits demolition.
Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors, the doctors
bicker and backstab. Ambition, jealousy, and loathing seethe
beneath the veneer of professional courtesy. Always an
outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, apothecary
Jem Flockhart observes everything but says nothing. And then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a
handful of dried flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags.
When Jem comes across these strange relics hidden inside the
infirmary’s old chapel, her quest to understand their
meaning prises open a long-forgotten past—with fatal
consequences.
In a trail that leads from the bloody world of the operating
room and the dissecting table to the notorious squalor of
Newgate Prison and the gallows, Jem’s adversary proves to be
both powerful and ruthless. As St. Saviour’s destruction
draws near, the dead are unearthed from their graves while
the living are forced to make impossible choices. And murder
is the price to be paid for the secrets to be kept.
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