Present day: Julia Hamill makes a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil - human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder long ago...

Boston, 1830: To pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local "resurrectionists" - those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Norris now finds himself the prime suspect in a series of grisly murders. Joinde by a sardonic young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris sets out to prove his innocence and track down a maniacal fiend - part of the dark mystery reaching across centuries to the present day world of Julia Hamill.

I expected another Isles/Rizzoli mystery, instead Maura Isles is mentioned only at the very beginning, when a sceleton is found... Nevertheless the story behind with all the historical facts about child birth and its danger at the beginning of the 19th century was very interesting and nicely told. It was good, that there is no happy end to the story between Norris and Rose - this way it sounds more true. the beginning love story between Julia and Tom would not have been necessary for me, but it might be the cherry on the icing for some female readers...

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Read: January 2016

Remarkable book! It not only presents a very interesting criminal case from the past, but also interesting facts about life in 1830, and developments in medicine in particular. Of course, living in Vienna and giving birth to my second child in the Semmelweis clinic, I've already heard of Ignaz Semmelweis. Didn't remember his actual observations and achievements, but as soon as I read the part about the first ward round of the doctor and his 4 students, I instantly knew what was wrong there. So obvious for us nowadays, but rather a nuisance 200 years ago.
I'm not very much into historical fiction, very very seldomly read it. And I have to admit, that my main reason to pick up this book here is because I enjoyed other books by Tess Gerritsen very much.
But nevertheless, I liked this book a lot. And I do like it when there are characters woven into the story that have been an actual person. Then I have something to look up on Wikipedia. :-)
Also I found it quite interesting how the Irish had been viewed and treated in that time. With disgust, anxiety and contempt. (Very similiar to how the refugees in Europe are viewed currently.)
They were really at the bottom of the lowest class, and that was even before the Great Famine brought even more Irish immigrants to North America 20 years later! Plus, many of the ppl who treated the Irish so badly, couldn't have been there so long themselves, probably just one or maybe two generations longer! And still they behaved as if they had every right to be there but the Irish have no right at all! How pathetic! How sad!

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