Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mysteries: The Anatomist's Apprentice (Audiobook)

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It's really 3.5 stars for this book, which I quite enjoyed. It ran a little long at times and there were a few spots that triggered my editorial impulses, but all in all it was a good period piece and a nice little mystery. The audiobook was nicely performed by Simon Vance.

from katiekrug

What should have been a really good historical mystery was just a mess - melodramatic and too reliant on coincidence and unseen action never hinted at until it became necessary to tie up the story. Add to that a simpering female with whom the protagonist instantly falls in love for no apparent re...

from EmpressReece

3.5 stars...I thought it was a good start but I think the writing needs to be developed a little more. There was alot of redundancy in the writing and alot of the same repeated phrases but I think with practice Harris will be a really superb writer. I enjoyed the story and the technical explanati...

from Pmaurer

The story set in the early days of forensic medicine. Dr Silkstone is called to investigate the murder of an Earl, who died in mysterious circumstances. The sister of the murdered man appeals to Silkstone for another opinion, and despite her being married to a Captain, they become enamored of eac...

from LisCarey

Thomas Silkstone is a young colonial physician who has moved to London and taken up the infant art of anatomy and the even more infant art of the postmortem. One of his students, Francis Crick, sends his cousin, Lady Lydia Farrell, to him after her brother, Lord Edward Crick, dies under mysteriou...