The Anatomists Apprentice
The Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mysteries, Book 1

In the first in a stunning mystery series set in eighteenthcentury England, Tessa Harris introduces Dr. Thomas Silkstone, anatomist and pioneering forensic detective. The death of Lord Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young manexcept his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from Dr. Thomas Silkstone, a young anatomist from Philadelphia. Thomas arrived in England to study under its foremost surgeon, where his unconventional methods only add to his outsider status. Against his better judgment, he agrees to examine Lord Edwards corpse. But it is not only the dead but also the living to whom he must apply the keen blade of his intellect. And the deeper the doctors investigations go, the greater the risk that he will be consigned to the ranks of the corpses he studies.