Patrice McDonough

Murder by Lamplight (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a deadly cholera pandemic burns its way through Victorian London in the winter of 1866, a trailblazing female physician and a skeptical Scotland Yard detective reluctantly team up to stop a sadistic killer in this dark, atmospheric, historically rich mystery for readers of Andrea Penrose and Deanna Raynourn. "Enthralling debut. . . Mystery, pulse-pounding suspense and a budding romance. More, please!"-Mary Jane Clark, New York Times Bestselling Author

November 1866: The grisly murder site in London's East End is thronged with onlookers. None of them expect the calmly efficient young woman among them to be a medical doctor, arrived to examine the corpse. Inspector Richard Tennant, overseeing the investigation, at first makes no effort to disguise his skepticism. But Dr. Julia Lewis is accustomed to such condescension . . . To study medicine, Julia had to leave Britain, where universities still bar their doors to women, and travel to America. She returned home to work in her grandfather's practice-amid London's devastating cholera epidemic. Yet in four years she's seen nothing quite like this-a local clergyman's body sexually mutilated and displayed in a manner that she-and Tennant-both suspect is personal. Days later, another body is found with links to the first, and Tennant calls in Dr. Lewis again. The murderer begins sending the police taunting letters and tantalizing clues that lead from London's music halls to its grim workhouses and sewers. But as Lewis and Tennant struggle to understand the killer's dark machinations, there is a new urgency. For the doctor's role appears to have shifted from expert to target. And this killer is no impulsive monster, but a calculating opponent, determined to see his plan through to its terrifying conclusion . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496746382
• Artikelnr.: 68132005

Autorenporträt

Patrice McDonough taught history for over thirty years. She was lucky to grow up in a reading household-her mother and father always had current books by their reading chairs, and others lined up. They were a history-loving family, too, which kindled her later professional direction. She read her way through her older brother's hand-me-down copies of the Hardy Boys and all of Agatha Christie, so, as a mystery-loving history teacher, it was natural that she would turn to the historical mystery genre. Visit her online at patricemcdonough1789.com.