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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. Saviourโs 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 infirmaryโs old chapel, her quest to understand their meaning prises open a long-forgotten pastโwith 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, Jemโs adversary proves to be both powerful and ruthless. As St. Saviourโs 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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