Doctor Death

✍ Scribed by Kaaberbøl, Lene

• Book ID: 109093733
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 300 KB
• Series: Madeleine Karno 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781476731384

✦ Synopsis

From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, a “gripping plot” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and captivating 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...