Anatomy of Murder

Name: Anatomy of Murder
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Imogen Robertson
ISBN: 9781464038648

Author: Imogen Robertson

Series: Crowther and Westerman #2

Narrator: Jenny Sterlin

Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/18/2012

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship's captain who has been gravely injured in the king's naval battles with France. As London's streets seethe with rumor, a body is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames. Having gained a measure of fame as amateur detectives for unraveling the mysteries of Thornleigh Hall, the indomitable Mrs. Westerman and her reclusive sidekick, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, are once again called on to investigate. In this intricate novel, Harriet and Crowther will discover that this is no ordinary drowning-the victim is part of a plot to betray England's most precious secrets.

About Imogen Robertson

Imogen Robertson is a former television, film, and radio director. She won the London Telegraph's First Thousand Words of a Novel competition in 2007 with the opening of Instruments of Darkness, her first novel. She lives in London and is the author of a second novel featuring Mrs. Westerman and Mr. Crowther, The Anatomy of Murder.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alexandra on March 17, 2021

Another fun mystery from Robertson. I enjoyed the two different perspectives from which the story was told, on opposite ends of the societal scale. The mystery gradually unfolds over time and different pieces are added by the two separate parties working on the same mystery.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 24, 2013

Entertaining historical novel reads a little like Jane Austen at times. This second novel of Robertson's refers often back to the first, so I wish I'd read that one first. Set in 1781, The lead character, Harriet Westerman, is the wife of a British Navy Captain. She and an older male who is somethin......more

Goodreads review by Krisette on October 15, 2022

I always have high expectations for the second installment in a great series, and this one delivers. The writing is so fantastic, and the mystery was extremely intriguing. The one thing that keeps me from giving these book 5 stars is the language. There's not a lot of bad language, there are probabl......more

Goodreads review by Simon on July 26, 2018

Liked the first, and the second is more of the same. The murder mystery (mysteries, really) runs a dim second to the depiction of 18th century London from almost every conceivable angle. There are really two mysteries that run parallel, and I think Ms. Robertson was a bit more interested in Jocasta,......more