| The Devil's Breath: A Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mystery Contributor(s): Harris, Tessa (Author), Vance, Simon (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1482963515 ISBN-13: 9781482963519 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.3" W x 5.7" (0.50 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eighteenth-century anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone travels to the English countryside to unravel a tangled web of mystery, medicine, and murder in this captivating new novel from Tessa Harris. A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise peaceful evening with the terrible sight of his body shaking and heaving, eyes wild with horror. Many of the villagers believe the devil himself has entered Joseph Makepeace, the latest victim of a "great fog" that darkens the skies over England like a biblical plague. When Joseph's son and daughter are found murdered--their heads bashed in by a shovel--the town's worst suspicions are confirmed: evil is abroad, and needs to be banished. A brilliant man of science, Dr. Thomas Silkstone is not one to heed superstition. But when he arrives at the estate of the lovely widow Lady Lydia Farrell, he finds that it's not just her grain and livestock at risk. A shroud of mystery surrounds Lydia's lost child, who may still be alive in a workhouse. A natural disaster fills the skies with smoke and ash, clogging the lungs of all who breathe it in. And the grisly details of a father's crime compel Dr. Silkstone to look for answers beyond his medical books--between the devil and the deep blue sea. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harris, Tessa: - Tessa Harris, an English author born in Lincolnshire, holds a history degree from Oxford University. After four years of working with local newspapers, she set her sights on women's magazines. She is regularly heard on local BBC radio and over the years has interviewed such people as Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Hampshire, Alan Titchmarsh, Jackie Stewart, Boris Johnson, and Uri Geller. Vance, Simon: -Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. |
