Ellie Summers' life is unravelling. Finding herself pregnant
- & her sexy but idle boyfriend Rick less than enthusiastic about
Rebus is off the case
- literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague.
Hawkwood, the Regency James Bond, returns in this gripping, action packed sequel to the bestselling ? Ratcatcher?. Matthew Hawkwood. Soldier, spy, lover ? a man as dangerous as the criminals he hunts. The tough Bow Street Runner is back where he's not wanted, in the most forbidding places London has to offer: its graveyards & the rank, sinister halls of Bedlam, the countrys most notorious lunatic asylum. There are missing bodies all around ? dead & alive. ' Resurrection men' serve the demands of the city's surgeons by stealing corpses ? & creating a few of their own along the way. Far more worrying is the escape from Bedlam of a very unusual inmate: one Colonel Titus Xavier Hyde, an obsessive, gifted surgeon whose insanity is only matched by his dark intelligence. & this twisted genius has a point to prove. Which will mean plenty more work for the gravediggers...