This tightly plotted novel by Brazil's best-selling crime author is a tale of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, set in a heat-soaked town in the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrat
The Body Snatcher
β Scribed by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Book ID
- 110792160
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480490970
- ASIN
- B018V77N6W
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β¦ Synopsis
An uncanny thriller from the acclaimed author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Medical school students Fettes and Macfarlane are charged with the unenviable task of receiving and paying for the institution's research cadavers. When Fettes recognizes the dead body of a woman he saw alive and well just the day before, he suspects murder. Macfarlane, however, insists that the authorities would never believe they had nothing to do with her death. Reluctantly, Fettes agrees to keep quiet, but soon regrets his decision when another familiar corpse turns upβand takes on a life of its own.
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