The Frankenstein Testament

Ireland 1839. Belfast is a city that is blossoming but already beginning to rot. Amid its crowded streets linen mills and factories the body snatchers are on the loose and a homicidal maniac is on a killing spree. Witnesses claim that the murderer is an executed criminal who should be dead and buried. Captain Joseph Sheridan a consulting detective from Dublin who specialises in investigating the supernatural travels north to probe the mystery. Joining forces with Abraham Harpur a Belfast policeman and Emily Brunty a school mistress who wants to be a journalist they find themselves on the trail of a grief-deranged doctor obsessed with resurrecting the dead.