A fever of the blood
By: Oscar de Muriel
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781681773452
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Private investigators; Murder; Magic; Witches; Psychiatric hospitals; Fiction; Investigation; Historical fiction
Description: New Year's Day,1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and Londoner-in-exile Inspector Ian Frey. Before the murder, the suspect was heard in whispered conversation with a fellow patient -- a girl who had been mute for years. What made her suddenly break her silence? And why won't she talk again? Could the rumours about black magic be more than superstition? McGray and Frey track a devious psychopath far beyond their jurisdiction, through the worst blizzard in living memory, into the shadow of Pendle Hill -- home of the Lancashire witches -- where unimaginable danger awaits.
Notes: Sequel to: The strings of murder.