AUDIOBOOK

The Anatomy of Ghosts

Andrew Taylor
3.7
(7)
Duration
13h 59m
Year
2011
Language
English

About

1786, Jerusalem College, Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumored to be haunting Jerusalem, since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds. Desperate to salvage her son's reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts, a stinging account of why ghosts are mere delusion to investigate. But his arrival in Cambridge disrupts an uneasy status quo as he glimpses a world of privilege and abuse. And when Holdsworth finds himself haunted not only by the ghost of his dead wife, Maria, but also Elinor-the very-much-alive Master's wife-his fate is sealed.

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"Andrew Taylor's brooding thriller…[is a] dark and gripping tale."
Washington Post
"Taylor's latest delivers an original historical mystery that uses the language and attitude of the period in a fresh way…A successful piece of compelling suspense literature and sophisticated historical crime fiction."
Library Journal

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