Antidote to Murder
Set in Edwardian London, this fantastic mystery series features Britain's first female autopsy surgeon. When an act of compassion misfires, autopsy surgeon Dr Dody McCleland must fight not only for her career, but also for her life. The body of a scullery maid is discovered in her room. When it...
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Set in Edwardian London, this fantastic mystery series features Britain's first female autopsy surgeon.
When an act of compassion misfires, autopsy surgeon Dr Dody McCleland must fight not only for her career, but also for her life.
The body of a scullery maid is discovered in her room. When it emerges that she had recently begged Dody to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, the coroner recommends Dody be tried for criminal abortion causing death. Meanwhile, the one man who might be able to help her, Chief Inspector Matthew Pike, is nowhere to be found. After another woman's body is discovered bearing all the hallmarks of the same crime, Dody suspects that a rogue doctor is on the loose.
Amid the turbulence of Edwardian London with its mix of strikes, suffragettes, German spies, exotic dancers and an illicit drug trade, Dody must unmask the killer before more girls are butchered and her own life ends on the gallows.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780732293697 (0732293693)
Publish date: 2013-03-07
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 329
Edition language: English
Series: Dr. Dody McCleland (#2)
I am usually not one for period stories. They usually don't hold my interest. This one was actually pretty good. Dody was an interesting character, a woman trying to make it in the world of medicine at the turn of the last century. People were constantly throwing up roadblocks for her. That's a...
Review for Historical Novel Society; blog review to come!(hint: I can't wait for the third book!)