Paperback: Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder.
Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson’s housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges.
As bodies begin to appear across the Old Town, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest shadows of Edinburgh’s underworld.
And if either of them are to make it out alive, they will have to work together to find out who’s responsible for the gruesome deaths.
The Way Of Flesh (2018) is the first book in the dynamic and stylishly written Will Raven and Sarah Fisher crime series set in 1840s Edinburgh, co-written by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman.
It is longlisted for the 2019 McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year.
The second book in this superb crime series, The Art Of Dying (2019), has just been published and is available in all bookshops now.
About the authors: Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland.
Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of twenty-one novels, including Black Widow, winner of both the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year.
Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years' experience, whose research for her Master's degree in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this novel was based.
Rating: 5/5
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