Description
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen is a gripping historical suspense novel that unfolds in Boston in 1830, following Norris Marshall, a talented but impoverished student at Boston Medical College. To fund his studies, he becomes involved in the city’s illicit cadaver trade, but when a nurse is brutally murdered on hospital grounds and a respected doctor is killed, Norris becomes the prime suspect. To prove his innocence, he teams up with Rose Connolly, a seamstress from the Boston slums, and the sharp-witted young Oliver Wendell Holmes. Their search for the killer takes them through grim cemeteries, autopsy suites, and the opulent mansions of Boston’s elite, uncovering shocking secrets. In the present day, medical examiner Maura Isles discovers a centuries-old skull in rural Massachusetts, linking past crimes to lingering mysteries.
Richly detailed, suspenseful, and atmospheric, this novel will appeal to readers of historical thrillers and crime fiction, exploring ambition, morality, and the deadly consequences of obsession.
