Book description
A locked room. A dark threat. A place of poisonous lies. Germany, 1784.
Daniel Clode cannot say whether or not he killed the woman. They were
found together in a locked room, dressed for the Carnival. But what of
the strange madness he feels, and how did she drown on dry land? Harriet
Westerman knows Daniel is not a murderer; her sister would not have
married such a man. She and the reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther
must travel to the Duke of Maulberg's Court to save him from the silken,
venal plotting of the castle, and from the axeman's steel. But their
journey across Europe brings them to an alien and capricious land, full
of lies and shadows, where no one can be trusted. "This series,
launched after Robertson won a Telegraph writing competition, continues
to excel" Imogen Robertson grew up in Darlington, studied Russian
and German at Cambridge, and now lives in London. She directed for TV,
film and radio before becoming a full-time author, and also writes and
reviews poetry. Imogen won the Telegraph's 'First thousand words of a
novel competition' in 2007 with the opening of Instruments of Darkness,
her first novel.
