Resurrectionist – A Regency Crime Thriller - Softcover

Mcgee, James

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9781605985244: Resurrectionist – A Regency Crime Thriller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605985244 ISBN 13: 9781605985244

Publisher: Pegasus, 2017

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For the body snatchers, death is a lucrative business. But it's the corpse they leave behind, horribly mutilated and nailed to a tree, which sets Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood on their trail.

A new term at London's anatomy schools stokes demand for fresh corpses, and the city's 'resurrection men' vie for control of the market. Their rivalry takes an ugly turn when a grave robber is brutally murdered and his body displayed as a warning to other gangs. To hunt down those responsible, Hawkwood must venture into London's murkiest corners, where even more gruesome discoveries await him.

Nowhere, however, is as grim as Bedlam, notorious asylum for the insane and scene of another bizarre killing. Sent to investigate, Hawkwood finds himself pitted against his most formidable adversary yet, an obsessive genius hell-bent on advancing the cause of science at all costs.

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Historical thriller fans will look forward to the sequels.

The dashingly mysterious Hawkwood is entirely suitable as a Regency-era James Bond. The best of the writing, however, comes through McGee's capacity for rendering Regency-era London.

Hawkwood has everything--duels and derring-do, London highlife and London lowlife, french lechery and treachery-- all contained in a fast-moving, cleverly constructed plot with an immaculately detailed historical background.--Reginald Hill

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The return of 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 rank graveyards and the sinister halls of Bedlam, notorious asylum for the insane.

The "Resurrection Men", who supply the city's anatomy schools with stolen corpses, have taken to murder. Hawkwood sets out to hunt them down, but is soon given a more elusive quarry - Colonel Hyde, an obsessive surgeon whose insanity is only matched by his brilliance, has escaped from Bedlam. And this twisted genius has a point to prove. Which will mean more work for the gravediggers ...

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