Name: Dark Asylum
Rating: 4.25 (6 reviews)
ISBN: 9781683248088

E. S. Thomson

"Set in a crumbling Victorian asylum where a gruesome murder is committed, this sequel to Beloved Poison explores the early science of brain study while giving chilling insight into an asylum's workings"--

Dark Asylum

Lauren

I knew I could not offer Will more that my friendship. but I could also not bear to have less than his love

The worst men in England make up judge and jury, are masters and property owners who crush the rest of us and drive their carriages over our bones. My fellow prisoners might be vicious and selfish, but it was life that had made them so. 

"Must I come?' said Will. “I will swoon like a woman and humiliate myself." 

The city's history was embedded in its very fabric, in the plague pits that pocked its soil, the streams and rivers that flowed beneath its streets, in the lives of its citizens, some of whom still remembered when there were orchards and fields where engine sheds, slaughter houses and gin shops now stood. Time moved forward and change was inevitable, but the past had long fingers and would not let go so easily. 

This nb 2 has more characters,( and is probably more tense) than the first. Good series, I will read the nb 3

Barbara

Sian

Kathy Rodger 

Sarah Agterhuis

The lips had been darned closed with six long, black, stitches. Clumsily executed, they gave the face a crude deaths-head appearance, like a child's drawing scrawled upon a wall . . . 1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes stitched closed. The police direct their attention towards Angel Meadow's inmates, but to Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain the crime is an act of calculated retribution, rather than of madness. To discover the truth Jem and Will must pursue the story through the darkest corners of the city - from the depths of a notorious rookery, to the sordid rooms of London's brothels, the gallows, the graveyard, the convict fleet and then back to the asylum. In a world where guilt and innocence, crime and atonement, madness and reason, are bounded by hypocrisy, ambition and betrayal, Jem and Will soon find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities. 'Following on from the events of acclaimed debut Beloved Poison, Dark Asylum vividly portrays the Gothic horror and questionable science of Victorian mental asylums in chilling detail. Meticulously researched and masterfully plotted, E.S. Thomson has written a complex, harrowing and highly enjoyable tale' - Daily Express 'Here's a tale of Victorian London to freeze your blood on a cold winter's night' - Evening Telegraph

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