Dr. Thomas Silkstone mysteries
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The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young man- except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from Dr. Thomas Silkstone, a young anatomist from Philadelphia. Thomas arrived in England to study under its foremost surgeon, where his unconventional methods only...
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It is not just the living who are prey to 1780s London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game - dug up from fresh graves and sold to men of science for dissection. Dr. Thomas Silkstone's unscrupulous rival, Dr. John Hunter, has learned of the imminent death of eight-foot-tall Charles Byrne, known as the "Irish Giant," and is obsessed with obtaining the body for his research. When Dr. Hunter is implicated in the horrific murder of a...
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2013
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Eighteenth-century anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone travels to the English countryside to unravel a tangled web of mystery, medicine, and murder-in this captivating new novel from Tessa Harris. . .
A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise peaceful evening with the terrible sight of his body shaking and heaving, eyes wild with horror. Many of the villagers believe the Devil himself has entered Joseph...
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Dr. Thomas Silkstone mysteries volume 4
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2014.
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"In 1780s London, American anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone is plunged into a swirling cauldron of sorcery, slavery, and cold-blooded murder"--
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Shadow of the raven: a Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery , Dr. Thomas Silkstone mysteries volume 5
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Dr. Thomas Silkstone mysteries volume 6
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2016.
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"Newly released from the notorious asylum known as Bedlam, Lady Lydia Farrell finds herself a murder suspect when she stumbles upon the mutilated body of Sir Montagu Malthus in his study at Boughton Hall. Dr. Thomas Silkstone hopes to clear his beloved's good name by conducting a postmortem on the victim"--
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