num_pages: 413
description: November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior Lady Kiera Darbys return to the city is anything but mundane though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds of Edinburgh criminals Burke and Harekilling people from the streets and selling their bodies to medical schools. Then Kieras pasta past she thought shed finally made peace withrises up to haunt her.All of London is horrified by the evidence that burkers are indeed at work in their city. The terrified populace hovers on a knifes edge ready to take their enmity out on any likely suspect. And when Kiera receives a letter of blackmail threatening to divulge details about her late anatomist husbands involvement with the body snatchers and wrongfully implicate her she begins to apprehend just how precarious her situation is. Not only for herself but also her new husband and investigative partner Sebastian Gage and their unborn child.Meanwhile the young scion of a noble family has been found murdered a block from his home and the mans family wants Kiera and Gage to investigate. Is it a failed attempt by the London burkers having left the body behind or the crime of someone much closer to home? Someone who stalks the privileged using the uproar over the burkers to cover his own dark deeds?  via USA Today's blog Joyce Lamb at Happily*Ever*After
language: English
title: An Artless Demise
publisher: Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Publishing Group