SPECIMENS (HB)

Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists begIn to map the secrets of the human body. To the horror of the local population, a shortage of bodies leads to the act of grave-robbing. And then a hitherto obscure pair of individuals by the names of Burke and Hare realise that murder will result in the freshest, most profitable bodies of all. A historical novel which tells the story of the Edinburgh serial killers through the eyes of two women, Susan and Helen, caught unwittingly in gruesome events.