The Specimens

Author: Mairi Kidd

Thriller / suspense

Published on 26 September 2024 by Bonnier Books Ltd (Black and White Publishing) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 288 pages
243 x 163 x 31mm | 496g

Up the close and down the stair,meet the women of Burke and HareEdinburgh, 1828. Two women - one rich, one poor - must navigate life against a frenzied backdrop of medical discovery, mob mayhem, and murder.

The home Helen shares in the slums of the Old Town with her lover William Burke could hardly be more different from Susan's dreams of an affluent existence as the wife of Robert Knox, one of the foremost anatomists of the day. But as people begin disappearing, these two very different women face an impossible choice. Should they protect what lives they have or tell the truth about what they know?This is the story of the notorious serial killings of Burke and Hare, told for the first time through the eyes of two very different women, whose stories explore the depths of the human heart in a perilous, vulnerable world.