Description
A gripping and darkly atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London.
Dr Silas Strangeway, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are visiting the Great Exhibition at Corvus Hall - a private anatomy school run by Dr Alexander Crowe , once one of Edinburgh's most revered anatomists. When they find a severed hand they assume it to be a prank but Jem's persistence reveals that a body does indeed lie in the school's mortuary, minus its right hand. More macabre still, its’ face has been dissected making identification impossible. Dr Crowe's daughter, Lilith, visits the mortuary. Her twin sisters, Sorrow and Silence - one blind and one deaf - exert a malign influence over the students. More organs, this time freshly dissected, appear in the anatomical museum. Fear grips lecturers and students, as something unseen binds them in a bloody pact of silence.
“Gothic. Gory. Glorious.” KIRSTY LOGAN, author of The Gloaming and The Gracekeepers.