Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson

The first is the country site in West Sussex, the site of Thornleigh Hall, the second is London in the midst of riots against Papists and the home of an Alexander Smith and his two young children. What follows is a gradual exposure of the local lord's family secrets.The author takes us between three locales. Crowther, is asked to aid in investigating the cause of the death. A local reclusive man known to be very familiar with human anatomy, Mr. The main story takes place in 1780 in England when a man is discovered murdered on the property of Mrs. This is an interesting historical mystery that spans five years and an ocean.

Crowther are both razor-sharp minds, and their personalities breathe spirit into this gripping historical mystery. Instruments of Darkness combines the brooding atmosphere of Anne Perry with the complex, compelling detail of Tess Gerritsen, moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from coffee house to country inn. His death will lead back to Sussex and to an explosive secret that has already destroyed one family and threatens many others. The same day, Alexander Adams is slain by an unknown killer in his London music shop, leaving his children orphaned. It is the home of a once-great family that has been reduced to an ailing invalid, his whorish wife, and his alcoholic second son, a man haunted by his years spent as a redcoat in the Revolutionary War.

Westerman has sensed the menace of neighboring Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.įor years, Mrs. In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket.

Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson