Instruments of Darkness: A Novel Mass market - 2011
by Imogen Robertson
- Used
- Paperback
Introducing a new historical crime series that The New YorkTimes Book Review called "CSI: Georgian England" andTess Gerritsen called "chillingly memorable"
Debut novelist Imogen Robertson won the London Telegraph's First Thousand Words of a Novel competition in 2007 with the opening of Instruments of Darkness. The finished work is a fast-paced historical mystery starring a pair of amateur eighteenth-century sleuths with razor-sharp minds. When Harriet Westerman, the unconventional mistress of a Sussex manor, finds a dead man on her grounds, she enlists reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer. Moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from dark London streets to the gentrified countryside, Instruments of Darkness is a gripping tale of the forbidding Thornleigh Hall and an unlikely forensic duo determined to uncover its deadly secrets.
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- Title Instruments of Darkness: A Novel
- Author Imogen Robertson
- Binding Mass Market
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - 3.1 PB standard 50%
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin (Non-Classics), New York
- Date December 2011
- Bookseller's Inventory # 938216
- ISBN 9780143120407 / 0143120409
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.37 x 5.57 x 0.85 in (21.26 x 14.15 x 2.16 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Introducing a new historical crime series that The New York Times Book Review called "CSI: Georgian England" and Tess Gerritsen called "chillingly memorable"
Debut novelist Imogen Robertson won the London Telegraph's First Thousand Words of a Novel competition in 2007 with the opening of Instruments of Darkness. The finished work is a fast-paced historical mystery starring a pair of amateur eighteenth-century sleuths with razor-sharp minds. When Harriet Westerman, the unconventional mistress of a Sussex manor, finds a dead man on her grounds, she enlists reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer. Moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from dark London streets to the gentrified countryside, Instruments of Darkness is a gripping tale of the forbidding Thornleigh Hall and an unlikely forensic duo determined to uncover its deadly secrets.
