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The Blood: What secrets lie aboard?

`Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this!` Rebecca Griffiths, author of The Primrose PathA world of secrets, murder and betrayal lie behind the London waterfront . . . Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen`s floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition and murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability. On shore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked – but how? Courting danger in the opium dens and brothels of the waterfront, certain that the Blood lies at the heart of the puzzle, Jem and Will embark on a quest to uncover the truth. In a hunt that takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary, they find themselves involved in a dark and terrible mystery. x x xPraise for E.S. Thomson`Meticulously researched and masterfully plotted, E.S. Thomson has written a complex, harrowing and highly enjoyable tale` Daily Express`Here`s a tale of Victorian London to freeze your blood on a cold winter`s night` Evening Telegraph`Jem Flockhart`s London is vivid, pungent and perilous. The Blood takes you to places you will love to picture but be grateful you can`t smell` Chris Brookmyre`E. S. Thompson`s Jem Flockhart books are the best I`ve read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, and unapologetically queer` Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers`It`s rare that a book is Gothic enough for me, but Beloved Poison is killing it. The blood, the bones, the crumbling hospital . . .` Laura Purcell, author of The Silent Companions`Jem Flockhart is a marvel . . . This vivid journey into the dark side of the human soul is a thoroughly engrossing tale` Mary Paulson Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker`Deliciously dark and vividly atmospheric, menace oozes from every page. Terrific for lovers of historical noir` Saga`A first class piece of historical crime writing` Big IssueA marvellous, vivid book … immaculately researched and breathtakingly dark` Janet Ellis, author of The Butcher`s Hook

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