The Art of Dying, Ambrose Parry
The Art of Dying, Ambrose Parry
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The Art of Dying

Author: Ambrose Parry

Narrator: Bryan Dick, Louise Brealey, Jayne Mckenna

Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/20/2021


Synopsis

The next in the series of gripping historical crime novels from bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman, set in nineteenth-century Edinburgh

Edinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer.

Determined to clear Simpson’s name, his protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher must plunge into Edinburgh’s deadliest streets and find out who or what is behind the deaths. Soon they discover that the cause of the
deaths has evaded detection purely because it is so unthinkable.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy

Records state that close to 170,000 people lived in Edinburgh in 1850. Having read this book, however, I now realise that the real number was somewhere closer to seven. Maybe I'm wrong - maybe there were fifteen, or even sixteen, people inhabiting the city. But there were surely no more than that. A......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee

As I’m interested in the history of medicine this is a book that appeals. ✔️ Set in Edinburgh? Another ✔️. Featuring Dr James Simpson of chloroform fame? ✔️ Brilliant characters in the aforementioned Simpson, Dr Will Raven and Sarah Fisher? ✔️ An intriguing mystery? ✔️ I could go on!! Will returns t......more