Reading the Bones at Blackthorn Manor

London, 1891. Dr. Philippa Thorne is called to certify a death that does not make sense: a baron's wife, fallen from the library stair, with no mark on her. The family wants an accident. The books want to be read. In the dust of the shelf the dead woman emptied the night she died, Philippa keeps finding the same subject — hands. Because Cecily Blackthorn had been recording her husband's experiments, and filing them under her own name. To stop Philippa reading, the baron will need only one thing: the asylum file that proves her unreliable. She signs nothing. In an inquest room where no woman is believed, Philippa Thorne reads the bones out loud. A Victorian historical mystery and an absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller.