The Devil's Daughters

Name: The Devil's Daughters
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Diana Bretherick
ISBN: 9781409157229

Author: Diana Bretherick

Narrator: Daniel Philpott

Unabridged: 13 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orion

Published: 10/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Crime, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito, a woman he once loved and lost, he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia's fifteen-year-old cousin has vanished but, because of her lower-class status, the police are unwilling to investigate.

Accompanied by his younger sister Lucy, Murray returns to the city of Turin where he was once apprenticed to the world-famous criminologist, Cesare Lombroso. As he embarks on his search for the missing girl, Murray uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances of young women and rumours of a haunted abbey on the outskirts of the city.

When the body of one of the girls turns up bearing evidence of a satanic ritual, Murray begins to slot together the pieces of the puzzle. But as two more bodies are discovered, fear grips the city and a desperate hunt begins to find a truly terrifying killer before he claims his next victim.

The Devil's Daughters is the gripping new novel from Diana Bretherick, author of City of Devils.

Read by Daniel Philpott

(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group

About Diana Bretherick

Diana Bretherick is an ex-criminal barrister and now a lecturer in criminology and criminal law at Portsmouth University. She won the GOOD HOUSEKEEPING new novel competition in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suze on December 22, 2016

It's 1888 and James Murray returns to Italy together with his sister Lucy. James has assisted a well known criminologist in Turin before, which is where he met Sophia. There's nothing he wouldn't do for her and when she asks him to help her find her cousin James immediately offers his expertise. The......more

Goodreads review by Linda on August 28, 2016

Enjoyable fast-moving historical thriller set in Turin in 1888, with some great characters, including the pompous and always amusing Lombroso (who was a real person.) Some of the harebrained ideas that were assumed to be true at the beginning of criminal anthropology as a subject are highly amusing,......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on August 18, 2024

The second entertaining if long-winded, instalment of Diana Bretherick's creation of Turin, Italy in the late 1880s involving a troubled Scottish scientist with a growing interest in 'forensics' & solving of mysteries etc...as a student of Mr Joseph Bell...an inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's cre......more

Goodreads review by Tim on August 21, 2015

It takes a certain talent to blend late 19th century society with dark, serial murder, satanic rites, incest and good sprinkling of other vices and human frailties and I'm unsure whether it is complementary to state that Diana bretherick has the ideal mind for the job! I was well and truly hooked alm......more

Goodreads review by Lizel on July 29, 2017

I recently borrowed the CD version from the Library and ... what a long drawn out story. Although I persevered to the end I found it to be overwritten and repetitive. I enjoyed the storyline (for the most part) and wanted to know how it ended but I think a lot of the content could have been left out......more

Quotes

'The Devil's Daughters makes good use of its Turin setting and its characters, particularly the real-life figure of the conceited, misguided yet brilliant Lombroso' THE SUNDAY TIMES