โ B K Baxter
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ BrixBaxter Publishing
๐ English
โ 311 KB
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The coroner's daughter: a novel
โ Scribed by Andrew Hughes
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books; W.W. Norton and Company
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 508 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
When a young woman uncovers evidence that a recent suicide may have been murder, her investigations attract the attention of a dangerous man stalking the streets of nineteenth-century Dublin.
Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of the Neshams, a prominent family in a radical Christian sect known as the Brethren. Rumors swirl about the identity of the child's father, but before an inquest can be held, the maid is found dead after an apparent suicide. When Abigail Lawless, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the city coroner, by chance discovers a message from the maid's seducer, she sets out to discover the truth.
An only child, Abigail has been raised amid the books and instruments of her father's grim profession, and he in turn indulges her curious and critical mind. Now she must push against the restrictions society places on a girl her age to pursue an increasingly dangerous investigation. Abigail's...
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