The Bone Garden - Rilegato

Gerritsen, Tess

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ISBN 10: 0593057775 ISBN 13: 9780593057773

Casa editrice: Bantam Press, 2008

Riassunto

Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding – not a rock but a human skull. Medical examiner Maura Isles quickly determines that the skeleton – that of a woman – dates back to the early 1800s.‘But too much time has passed,’ Maura warns Julia. ‘We may never know the whole story of how she died.’ Boston in the 1830s is a place of disease and pestilence – and no one is more aware of this than Norris Marshall, a student at Harvard Medical School who is forced to support himself by performing the most secretive job of all. Norris is a resurrectionist - a body-snatcher - who procures cadavers from grave robbers in order to further his study of human anatomy. Soon he finds himself hunting the most notorious killer of his time, a shadowy figure who flits through graveyards and glittering ballrooms. What he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he thinks ...

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Recensione:

"The tale is full of fascinating and often spectacularly gory scenes involving maternity wards and grave robbers. This is a fast-paced novel that will leave you with a real appreciation of just how far medicine has come in the past century." (THE MAIL ON SUNDAY)

"A well-constructed mystery, though readers with delicate stomachs may wish to avoid the scenes in the dissection room." (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

"Tess Gerritsen gets better with every book." (DAILY MIRROR)

Descrizione del libro:

Tess Gerritsen's chilling new bestseller uncovers secrets that are as old - and as terrifying - as time itself.

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• Editore: Bantam Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0593057775
• ISBN 13: 9780593057773
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384