Resurrectionists

Matthew Hawkwood. Soldier, spy, lover - a man as dangerous as the criminals he hunts.The tough Bow Street Runner is back where he's not wanted, in the most forbidding places London has to offer: its graveyards and the rank, sinister halls of Bedlam, the country-s most notorious lunatic asylum.There are missing bodies all around - dead and alive. 'Resurrection men' serve the demands of the city's surgeons by stealing corpses - and creating a few of their own along the way. Far more worrying is the escape from Bedlam of a very unusual inmate: one Colonel Titus Xavier Hyde, an obsessive, gifted surgeon whose insanity is only matched by his dark intelligence. And this twisted genius has a point to prove. Which will mean plenty more work for the gravediggers- Death was their business but one grave robber was about to come closer to his trade than he would have wished. His violent murder brings the city's band of body snatchers to the attention of one Matthew Hawkwood. Delving deep into the world of the country's foremost anatomists, he learns of the bizzare experiments and horrifying truth For The Body Snatchers, Death Is A Lucrative Business. But It's The Corpse They Leave Behind, Horribly Mutilated And Nailed To A Tree, Which Sets Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood On Their Trail. --cover. Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood brings his own form of justice to the salons and slums of Regency London in the gripping sequel to ‘Ratcatcher’. In het Londen van begin 19e eeuw spelen lijkenrovers een belangrijke rol in het verschaffen van lijken voor medisch onderzoek.