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2019/19: The Resurrection Fireplace -- Hiroko Minagawa
Thursday, March 21st, 2019 10:18 am[not yet available via Amazon, so no link]
The setting is London in 1770. Dr Daniel Barton and his students are happily dissecting the corpse of a pregnant woman when they're alerted to the approach of the Bow Street Runners. Quickly concealing the cadaver in the oddly-designed fireplace, they brazen out the questions. But when the students go retrieve the corpse, it has company: the body of a young man with arms and legs amputated, and the body of a middle-aged man whose face has been destroyed.
( no spoilers )
"I do not like to be touched by strangers."
"You have no right to refuse, Mr. Turner," Anne told him. "Sir John holds people's hands because he cannot see them."
"But that is to help him detect an offender, is it not? I am confessing to the crime myself."
"Your confession may be a lie," said Anne.
"What reason have I to lie?" She paused.
"To protect someone, perhaps," she said finally. [loc. 4036]
The setting is London in 1770. Dr Daniel Barton and his students are happily dissecting the corpse of a pregnant woman when they're alerted to the approach of the Bow Street Runners. Quickly concealing the cadaver in the oddly-designed fireplace, they brazen out the questions. But when the students go retrieve the corpse, it has company: the body of a young man with arms and legs amputated, and the body of a middle-aged man whose face has been destroyed.
( no spoilers )
