Be prepared for a wild ride in 1830 London. Abigail (Abby) Hale lives and works with her father in London at the Aldersgate School of Medicine. Abby aspires to be a surgeon, which is pretty much unheard of for females during this era. The school needs corpses for anatomy and dissection purposes. On her own, and without her father’s knowledge, Abby decides to help her father out, and sends a request to a company for a body. Resurrectionists (body snatchers) from the London Supply Company come into her office one night and drop a bagged body at her feet. Trouble and danger begins, for not only did they take all the money in her bag, but later that night they also came back to steal the body. Abby begins her journey in finding the stolen money and a personal treasure of hers, taking her to areas unknown. She is captured and held by the London Supply Company and has to stay in the same room with the other main character in this novel, Max. Max is not as he initially appears, and is actually trying to find his missing sister, Madeline. He took up working for these scoundrels to find clues as to her whereabouts. There are murders, missing bodies, stabbings, and all kinds of action throughout this novel. You visit warehouses, docks, seedy taverns, prostitution houses, and private homes. Not only did I learn a lot about life in these times, but I was caught up in the suspense and couldn’t wait to see how this would be resolved.

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