Doctor Death
eBook - ePub

Doctor Death

A Madeleine Karno Mystery

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Doctor Death

A Madeleine Karno Mystery

About this book

The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase draws you into a "gripping" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) mystery from the very first line of this page-turning historical thriller featuring an ambitious young female detective challenging the mores of nineteenth century France. Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She longs to become a pathologist like her father, whom she assists, but this is 1894. Autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a man.So it's no surprise that when seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full postmortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue. Soon after, the priest who held vigil by the dead girl's corpse is brutally murdered. The thread that connects these two events is a tangled one, and as the death toll mounts, Madeleine must seek knowledge in odd places: behind convent walls, in secret diaries, and in the yellow stare of an aging wolf.Eloquently written and with powerful insight into human and animal nature, Doctor Death is at once a captivating mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter I: February 23–March 20, 1894
  4. Chapter II: March 20–25, 1894
  5. Chapter III
  6. Chapter IV: March 28–30, 1894
  7. Chapter V: November 1887–September 1893
  8. Chapter VI: March 31–April 16, 1894
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. About Lene Kaaberbøl
  11. Copyright