The Art of Dying

The next in the series of gripping historical crime novels from best-selling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman set in 19th-century Edinburgh Edinburgh 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr. James Simpson pioneer of medical chloroform as a murderer. Determined to clear Simpson’s name his protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher must plunge into Edinburgh’s deadliest streets and find out who or what is behind the deaths. Soon they discover that the cause of the deaths has evaded detection purely because it is so unthinkable.