Voices of the Dead (A Raven and Fisher Mystery Book 4)

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He surfaces again in All Fun and Games, Until Someone Loses an Eye and is also referenced in A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil.

Without taking away from the skill employed in the plotting and historical detail, they are perhaps the real reason you keep reading. A good old enjoyable bit of historical fiction, lightly sprinkled with a few real life characters and events. As you can imagine, sleight of hand is involved in these targeted pseudo-sciences and you suspect that the author(s) are indulging in a similar game of bait-and-switch. Set in C19 Edinburgh, this exciting novel involves a variety of characters, establishment and otherwise, from the worlds of medicine, theatre, property and the law, and highlights contemporary Victorian activities, such as Mesmerism and property development.This is a crime thriller set in Edinburgh in the 1840's, when Edinburgh was leading the way in medical science. Hannigan is noted to have died at a point in time between events in All Fun And Games, Until Someone Loses An Eye and those in A Snowball in Hell, in which his death is mentioned.

An upsetting theme of unwanted children, baby farming, is an unfortunate reality of the times, where single mothers or poor parents tried to find an alternative life for their children.This was an interesting buddy read with my good friend Peter - here’s to the next one 🥂Cheers buddy! This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.

Character development and the buildup to the mystery was a large part of the book even though the murder was committed in the first few chapters. Dr Will Raven is wary of the shadowlands that lie between progress and quackery, but Sarah Fisher can’t afford to be so picky. His assistant, Sarah Raven, dearly wants to become a doctor (impossible in 1853) and Raven is sympathetic towards her.

This is surgery’s Black Period as Simpsons chloroform enables more operations but Joseph Lister has yet to discover the benefits of carbolic acid. Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. Zal Innez was one of the main characters in The Sacred Art of Stealing and was brought back with a similarly central role in A Snowball in Hell. Steff Kennedy, the hero of Not the End of the World, is mentioned as the photographer who took the picture of the Arguments for their single sleeve in A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away.