The Secrets of Life
and Death by Rebecca Alexander (Ebury £12.99) hits the bookshops shortly.
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…”
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