The Specimens: A bold retelling of Burke and Hare's crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth by Mairi Kidd

The Specimens: A bold retelling of Burke and Hare's crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth

Mairi Kidd

278 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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The home Helen shares in the slums of the Old Town with her lover William Burke could hardly be more different from Susan's dreams of an affluent existence as the wife of Robert Knox, one of the foremost anatomists of the day. But as people begin ...

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