Tessa Harris. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6698-9
Set in 1780, Harris’s absorbing debut introduces anatomist Thomas Silkstone, an American living in London, whom the author credits with a number of firsts, including recording the stages of decomposition of corpses and observing insects on a cadaver
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6699-6
Body snatchers plague 1782 London in Harris’s outstanding sequel to 2012’s The Anatomist’s Apprentice. In particular, unscrupulous anatomists covet the body of Charles Byrne, the celebrated eight-foot-tall “Irish Giant,” who is appearing at the...
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6700-9
A real-life natural disaster propels Harris’s excellent third Thomas Silkstone mystery (after 2013’s The Dead Shall Not Rest). The odd behavior of wildlife, including a massive flock of geese flying overhead, tips off anatomist Silkstone, an...
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9337-4
Conflicting attitudes toward slavery in Georgian England propel Harris’s stellar fourth historical starring American anatomist Thomas Silkstone (after 2013’s The Devil’s Breath). In 1783, the president of the Royal Society, Joseph Banks, honors...
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9339-8
More romantic thriller than whodunit, Harris’s fifth Thomas Silkstone novel set in late 18th-century England focuses on Silkstone’s efforts to reunite with his love, Lady Lydia Farrell. At the end of 2014’s The Lazarus Curse, Lydia was confined to...
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9341-1
Set in 1784, Harris’s satisfying sixth Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery (after 2015’s Shadow of the Raven) finds attorney Sir Montagu Malthus, who controls Lady Lydia Farrell’s estate, opposed to her relationship with the upstart Silkstone. When Lydia...
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0654-6
Harris’s late-Victorian historical, a series launch, is less successful than her Dr. Thomas Silkstone mysteries (The Anatomist’s Apprentice, etc.). Although flower girl Constance Piper must struggle to make a living, she recognizes that she’s better
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0657-7
Constance Piper, a flower girl in London’s East End, shares narrative duties with Emily Tindall, her old Sunday school teacher, who was brutally murdered and now guides Constance from beyond the grave, in Harris’s solid sequel to 2017’s The Sixth...
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Tessa Harris. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0660-7
Eight months after Jack the Ripper’s last killing in 1888, Alice Mackenzie is found dead of wounds similar but not identical to those of his victims, in Harris’s muddled third mystery featuring flower seller Constance Piper (after 2018’s The Angel...
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