The Bone Garden
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Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding not a rock but a human skull. edical 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. oston 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. orris 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 autopsy suites, through glittering ballrooms and the luxurious drawing rooms of Boston Brahmins. hat he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he thinks ..
Author: Tess Gerritsen
Format: Hardback, 384 pages, 158mm x 242mm, 650 g
Published: 2008, Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Description
Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding not a rock but a human skull. edical 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. oston 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. orris 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 autopsy suites, through glittering ballrooms and the luxurious drawing rooms of Boston Brahmins. hat he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he thinks ..
The Bone Garden