Voices of the Dead

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Author: Ambrose Parry Scotland | Crime & mystery | Historical fiction Published on 6th June 2024 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom as part of the 'A Raven and Fisher Mystery ' series.Paperback / softback | 416 pages 198mm x 129mm | 416g A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAREDINBURGH, 1853. In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . . Body parts have been found at Surgeons' Hall, and they're not anatomy specimens. Dr Will Raven is able to identify a prime suspect, but the individual he seeks happens to be an accomplished actor, a man of a thousand faces and a renowned master of disguise. Meanwhile, mesmerism, spiritualism and other unexplained phenomena are taking hold of hearts and minds. Frustrated in her own medical ambitions, Sarah Fisher sees opportunity in a new therapeutic field not already closed off to women. With the lines between science and spectacle dangerously blurred, the stage is set for a grand and deadly illusion . . . Show more