A Corruption of Blood

Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, Book 3

By: Ambrose Parry

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron, Bryan Dick

Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh - the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah Fisher.

Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.

Dr. Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman.

Back in the townhouse of Dr. James Simpson, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practice medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but when word reaches her that a woman has recently obtained a medical degree despite her gender, Sarah decides to seek her out.

Raven’s efforts to prove his former adversary’s innocence are failing, and he desperately needs Sarah’s help. Putting their feelings for one another aside, their investigations take them to both extremes of Edinburgh’s social divide, where they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood.

©2021 Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman (P)2021 Canongate Books

HISSSSSSSSSS

After enjoying the preceding two books in the series I am finding it EXTREMELY difficult to finish the third. Reason being the incessant hissing the female narrator performs with all S’s. It is intolerable. Sssssssara wasssss sooooooo ssssssssad. Speeding up to 150x during the chapters read by the female narrator and turning volume down low made it possible for me to endure thus far. Barely. A tragedy Kathleen/ Cathleen is the female voice actor for books 4 and 5 so, this is the last book I will purchase in what is otherwise a very good ssssssseriesssssss. 😡

Great mystery

This series consistently delivers! The main characters continue to develop in unpredictable and believable ways. The history and medicine remain interesting. The mystery at the heart of this novel is on par with any great mystery novel.

great

loved this series looking forward to book four. My top tier historical fiction books

Another Great Listen

Regardless of the change in the female narrator for this third book, the performances were fabulous. The story was well written and had all of the characteristics I’ve come to expect from Ambrose Parry. The only disappointment is that this was the last in the series!