Brief Description
Originally published as: Kadaverdoktoren. Kbenhavn: Modtryk, 2010.
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From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, a gripping plot (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and captivating historical thriller.
Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She wants to become a pathologist like her father, whose assistant she is, but this is 1894, and autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a man hence his odious nickname, Doctor Death. That a young woman should wish to spend her time dissecting corpses is too scandalous for words.
Thus, when seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full post-mortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue: in the dead girl s nostrils they find a type of parasite normally seen only in dogs. 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 gripping mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story."
About the Author
Lene Kaaberbol, the New York Times bestselling author of Doctor Death, has sold more than two million books worldwide. She has won several awards for her fiction, including a nomination for the Hans Christian Andersen medal. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Kaaberbol is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, which was selected as a New York Times Book Review Notable Crime Book of 2011, and won the Harald Mogensen Award for Best Danish Thriller of the Year. Kaaberbol, born in Copenhagen, now lives on the Channel Island of Sark.
About the Book
From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "The Boy in the Suitcase," a gripping plot ("Publishers Weekly," starred review) and captivating historical thriller.
Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She wants to become a pathologist like her father, whose assistant she is, but this is 1894, and autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a man hence his odious nickname, Doctor Death. That a young woman should wish to spend her time dissecting corpses is too scandalous for words.
Thus, when seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full post-mortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue: in the dead girl s nostrils they find a type of parasite normally seen only in dogs. 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 gripping mystery and a poignant coming-of-age story."
Review Quotes
1. "Madeleine Karno is a sleuth both true to the period and rooted in strength of will, gumption, and ambition."-- Sarah Weinman, editor of Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives"
2. Madeleine Karno is a sleuth both true to the period and rooted in strength of will, gumption, and ambition. -- Sarah Weinman, editor of Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives"
3. Praise for "The Boy in the Suitcase
" "It packs an almighty punch. --The New York Times Book Review "Notable Crime Book of 2011 ""
4. Praise for The Boy in the Suitcase
"It packs an almighty punch. --The New York Times Book Review "Notable Crime Book of 2011 ""
