Series: A Raven and Fisher Mystery

Parry's Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive - and it's a world of pain - Val McDermid A rip-roaring tale of murder - Ian Rankin SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020 Edinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical...

Brilliantly conceived, fiendishly plotted - Mick Herron The immersive world of Ambrose Parry just gets better and better - Jess Kidd Edinburgh, 1853. In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . . In a time of unprecedented scientific innovation, the public's appetite for wonder has seen a resurgence of interest in mesmerism, spiritualism, and other unexplained phenomena....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2024 EDINBURGH, 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...

1854, Edinburgh. Respectable faces hide private sins. Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a...

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame, Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself — a notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from....

The Way of All Flesh is set in Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson's housemaid and has all of Raven's intelligence but none of his privileges. As bodies begin to appear across the Old Town, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest shadows...