MRS BURKE AND MRS HARE (PB)

In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town, sixteen people are murdered to supply Dr Robert Knox’s anatomy classes. Burke and Hare and their wives, Lucky and Nelly, are all complicit, but only Burke swings for their crimes. Lucky, Nelly and Hare go on the run, reinvention their only means of survival. Years later, journalist Duncan Fletcher hears rumours of sightings of the two women. With cobbler Joseph Campbell in tow, his quest leads him to the backstreets of London, where the horrors of the past collide with the present.