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By
Lene Kaaberbol and
Elisabeth Dyssegaard (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Atria Books
Publication date
February 17, 2015
Pages
289
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781476731384
ISBN-10
1476731381
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$25.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, a âgripping plotâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and captivating historical thriller.
Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She wants to become a pathologist like her father, whose assistant she is, but this is 1894, and autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a manâhence his odious nickname, Doctor Death. That a young woman should wish to spend her time dissecting corpses is too scandalous for words.
Thus, when seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full post-mortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue: in the dead girlâs nostrils they find a type of parasite normally seen only in dogs. Soon after, the priest who held vigil by the dead girlâs corpse is brutally murdered. The thread that connects these two events is a tangled one, and as the death toll mounts, Madeleine must seek knowledge in odd places: behind convent walls, in secret diaries, and in the yellow stare of an aging wolf.
Eloquently written and with powerful insight into human and animal nature, Doctor Death is at once a gripping mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story.
Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She wants to become a pathologist like her father, whose assistant she is, but this is 1894, and autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a manâhence his odious nickname, Doctor Death. That a young woman should wish to spend her time dissecting corpses is too scandalous for words.
Thus, when seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full post-mortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue: in the dead girlâs nostrils they find a type of parasite normally seen only in dogs. Soon after, the priest who held vigil by the dead girlâs corpse is brutally murdered. The thread that connects these two events is a tangled one, and as the death toll mounts, Madeleine must seek knowledge in odd places: behind convent walls, in secret diaries, and in the yellow stare of an aging wolf.
Eloquently written and with powerful insight into human and animal nature, Doctor Death is at once a gripping mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story.
Editions
Hardcover
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With Elisabeth Dyssegaard (other contributor) |
from Atria Books (February 17, 2015)
9781476731384 | details & prices | 289 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $25.00
About: From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, a âgripping plotâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and captivating historical thriller.
About: From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, a âgripping plotâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and captivating historical thriller.
Paperback
With Elisabeth Dyssegaard (other contributor) |
Reprint edition from Atria Books (January 12, 2016)
9781476731391 | details & prices | 289 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $16.00
About: The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase draws you into a âgrippingâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) mystery from the very first line of this page-turning historical thriller featuring an ambitious young female detective challenging the mores of nineteenth century France.
About: The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase draws you into a âgrippingâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) mystery from the very first line of this page-turning historical thriller featuring an ambitious young female detective challenging the mores of nineteenth century France.
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