Death is only the beginning.
When heiress Jenna Neville is found murdered beneath the specimen jars of the Hunterian Museum, Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke is handed an impossible case and an ivory figurine as the only clue.
It leads her to Blake Daniel, a reluctant psychic who reads the memory of objects through his scarred hands.
As Jamie's own world falls apart, the trail runs through corpse-artists, body thieves and a pharmaceutical dynasty to a secret society who believe some bodies are property, and that on the slab, we are all the same.
A detective who has lost everything. A psychic who sees too much. A secret society that believes your body belongs to them.
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The research behind the book
The Hunterian Museum
John Hunter's real specimen collection, and the visit that left Jo physically overcome and seeded the novel.
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Grave-robbing economics: bodies priced by the inch for London's anatomy schools.
Learn more →Corpse art and plastination
The Bodies exhibition, questions of consent, and the real legal grey zone behind Rowan's studio.
Torture Garden
The real London club behind the novel's fetish underworld, and where O first dances.
Psychometry
Reading the memory of objects: Blake's rules, sparked by a dissection table in the Hunterian.
Tango and grief
Why Jamie dances: inspired by Kapka Kassabova's Twelve Minutes of Love.
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