From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York
Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, a
“hair-raisingly well done” (Weekendavisen) historical
thriller.
Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine
Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial
French upbringing. She wants to become a pathologist like
her father, whose assistant she is, but this is 1894, and
autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when
performed by a man—hence his odious nickname, Doctor Death.
That a young woman should wish to spend her time dissecting
corpses is too scandalous for words.
Thus, when
seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the
snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full
post-mortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left
with a single mysterious clue: in the dead girl’s nostrils
they find a type of parasite normally seen only in dogs.
Soon after, the priest who held vigil by the dead girl’s
corpse is brutally murdered. The thread that connects these
two events is a tangled one, and as the death toll mounts,
Madeleine must seek knowledge in odd places: behind convent
walls, in secret diaries, and in the yellow stare of an
aging wolf.
Eloquently written and with powerful
insight into human and animal nature, Doctor Death is
at once a gripping mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story.
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