The Bone Garden - Audio Book

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Read by Laurel Lefkow. Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft & 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 & pestilence
- & no one is more aware of this than Norris Marshall, a student at Boston Medical College 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 & glittering ballrooms. What he does not realise is that the killer is far closer than he thinks...