The Secrets of Life and Death
- Author Rebecca Alexander
- Narrator India Fisher, Simon Slater
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 11 hours and 38 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fantasy.
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What to expect
Krakow, 1585
Summoned by the King of Poland to help save his dying niece, Edward Kelley and his master, alchemist and scholar Dr John Dee, discover a dark secret at the heart of The Countess Bathory’s malady.
But perhaps the cure will prove more terrifying than the alternative...
England, 2013
Jackdaw Hammond lives in the shadows, a practitioner and purveyor of occult materials. But when she learns of a young woman found dead on a train, her body covered in arcane symbols, there’s no escaping the attention of police consultant Felix Guichard.
Together they must solve a mystery centuries in the making, or die trying…
Critics Review
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[The Secrets of Life and Death] is a fine addition to the urban fantasy genre and marks Alexander as an author to watch
The Independent on Sunday -
an enjoyable read … Plenty of tension and some chilling moments kept me going until the very end
crimereview.co.uk -
reminiscent of the masterly Stephen Lloyd Jones
thebookbag.co.uk
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