An Artless Demise
โ Scribed by Anna Lee Huber
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Berkley Prime Crime
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 251 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0451491378
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.
November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds of Edinburgh criminals, Burke and Hare--killing people from the streets and selling their bodies to medical schools. Then Kiera's past--a past she thought she'd finally made peace with--rises up to haunt her.
All of London is horrified by the evidence that "burkers" are, indeed, at work in their city. The terrified populace hovers on a knife's edge, ready to take their enmity out on any likely suspect. And when Kiera receives a letter of blackmail, threatening to divulge details...
โฆ Subjects
Mystery
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