eBook details
- Title: Skin and Bone
- Author : Robin Blake
- Release Date : January 25, 2016
- Genre: Historical,Books,Mysteries & Thrillers,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1503 KB
Description
Itâs 1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Craggâs inquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants dead set on modernizing the townâs economy and regarding the despised tannersâand Craggâs apparent championship of themâas obstacles to their plan. The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get rid of the tanners once and for all.
But the inquest into the babyâs death is disrupted when the inn where it is being held mysteriously burns down, and Cragg himself faces a charge of lewdness, jeopardizing his whole future as a coroner. But the fates have not finished playing with him just yet. The sudden and suspicious death of a very prominent person may just, with the help of Fidelisâs sharp forensic skills, bring about Craggâs redemption...