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The Secrets of Life and Death

By: Rebecca Alexander
Narrated by: India Fisher, Simon Slater
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Summary

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…
©2013 Rebecca Alexander (P)2013 Random House AudioGo
Science Fiction Fiction
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One of my favourites

Wish the second and third was an audio book loved it. Great story. I liked thst there was more then one voice reading this book out

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