New on the Mystery Bookshelf during March 2016 …
Speakers of the Dead by J. Aaron Sanders, A Walt Whitman Mystery
Publisher: Plume
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The year is 1843; the place: New York City. Aurora reporter Walt Whitman arrives at the Tombs prison yard where his friend Lena Stowe is scheduled to hang for the murder of her husband, Abraham. Walt intends to present evidence on Lena's behalf, but Sheriff Harris turns him away. Lena drops to her death, and Walt vows to posthumously exonerate her.
Walt's estranged boyfriend, Henry Saunders, returns to New York, and the two men uncover a link between body-snatching and Abraham's murder: a man named Samuel Clement. To get to Clement, Walt and Henry descend into a dangerous underworld where resurrection men steal the bodies of the recently deceased and sell them to medical colleges. With no legal means to acquire cadavers, medical students rely on these criminals, and Abraham's involvement with the Bone Bill — legislation that would put the resurrection men out of business — seems to have led to his and Lena's deaths.
— Speakers of the Dead by J. Aaron Sanders
To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for March 2016. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of March 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.
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