Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man.
There’ll be eavesdropping, dress-burning and a murderous attempt to uphold the family honor before a trip to a Whitechapel workhouse determines not only why the rat-catcher had to die but what became of Lucy’s baby.ĭespite some halfhearted red herrings that litter the plot, Lizzie copes nicely with barking dogs, snapping aunts and gentlemen who shade the truth.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. When Lucy is found screeching and bloodstained at the side of an itinerant rat-catcher who’s been murdered with an ornamental dagger from Shore House, Charles Roche beseeches the Yard for tact and rectitude. On her arrival, Lizzie glimpses Lucy’s mercurial nature, more tried than ever by the absence of her scoundrel of a husband, banished to China on tea business, and the tenderness neighboring landowner Andrew Beresford shows her. Marius Lefebre, who confides that he too is destined for Shore House, where poor Lucy refuses to believe her child is dead. Lizzie heads off over the objections of her beau, Inspector Ben Ross, Scotland Yard.
Victorian respectability comes under siege.Ĭharles Roche, purveyor of silks and teas, hires plucky Lizzie Martin ( The Companion, 2007) to attend his niece Lucy Craven, who’s grieving the death of her baby and residing at Shore House, the Hampshire home of her maiden aunties Christina, a battleaxe, and Phoebe, more of a mouse.
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