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Parry s Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive – and it s a world of pain Val McDermid
Brilliantly conceived, fiendishly plotted Mick Herron

SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 2

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 chloroform, as a murderer.

Determined to clear Simpson s name, his protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher must plunge into Edinburgh s deadliest streets and find out who or what is behind the deaths. Soon they discover that the cause of the deaths has evaded detection purely because it is so unthinkable.