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The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase draws you into a “gripping” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) mystery from the very first line of this page-turning historical thriller featuring an ambitious young female detective challenging the mores of nineteenth century France.
Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She longs to become a pathologist like her father, whom she assists, but this is 1894. Autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a man.
So it’s no surprise that when seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full postmortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue. Soon after, the priest who held vigil by the dead girl’s corpse is brutally murdered. The thread that connects these two events is a tangled one, and as the death toll mounts, Madeleine must seek knowledge in odd places: behind convent walls, in secret diaries, and in the yellow stare of an aging wolf.
Eloquently written and with powerful insight into human and animal nature, Doctor Death is at once a captivating mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She longs to become a pathologist like her father, whom she assists, but this is 1894. Autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a man.
So it’s no surprise that when seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full postmortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue. Soon after, the priest who held vigil by the dead girl’s corpse is brutally murdered. The thread that connects these two events is a tangled one, and as the death toll mounts, Madeleine must seek knowledge in odd places: behind convent walls, in secret diaries, and in the yellow stare of an aging wolf.
Eloquently written and with powerful insight into human and animal nature, Doctor Death is at once a captivating mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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February 2015 : USA Hardback
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January 2016 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
March 2021 : USA Audio CD
February 2015 : USA Audio CD
February 2015 : USA Audio edition

Title: Doctor Death: A Madeleine Karno Mystery
Author(s): Lene Kaaberbol
Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon
February 2015 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Doctor Death: A Madeleine Karno Mystery
Author(s): Lene Kaaberbol
Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon CA
Kindle Editions
February 2015 : USA, Australia, Canada Kindle edition
February 2015 : UK Kindle edition

Title: Doctor Death: A Madeleine Karno Mystery
Author(s): Lene Kaaberbol
Publisher: Atria Books
Availability: Amazon UK