The Resurrection Men

<p><em>Three coffins. Four corpses. Buried secrets do not sleep forever...</em><br><br>London 1888. The city is choking on fog fear and whispers of murder. Inspector Morven Flint finds himself drawn into a series of killings as grim as they are grotesque. Each victim is connected by blood to a darker chapter of London's past: the Resurrection Men the ghoulish body-snatchers who once fed the dissecting tables of the city's medical schools.<br>Now decades later their descendants are being hunted down-buried alive dissected laid out like specimens-by a killer who believes vengeance has been too long delayed. At the heart of the mystery lies the mystery of a woman who was buried alive whose name echoes through the shadows like a curse.<br>With his enigmatic companion Edwin Locke at his side Flint must navigate smoke-choked Whitechapel unravelling a web that binds anatomy theatres forgotten graves and the restless dead. But as the body count mounts Flint begins to suspect that his associate is not merely mysterious-he may not even be entirely human.<br>At first the grisly murders are laid at the feet of Jack the Ripper. Yet Flint and Locke know the truth: the Ripper is already dead slain by Flint himself at terrible cost.<br>A chilling Victorian mystery steeped in Gothic atmosphere The Case of the Resurrection Men is the opening volume in a new series that blends murder the supernatural and the lingering ghosts of London's underworld.<br><br><em>The dead don't always rest. Some wait for justice.</em></p>