The Coroner's Borrowed Bones

One drowned woman. Three burial registers. Two death dates. London, 1888. Coroner Edwin Sayre opens an inquest into a woman pulled from the Regent's Canal and finds a healed fracture he has seen before — on his own table, eleven years ago, under another name. Constable Nell Okafor finds the same woman in three parish registers, buried three times. Then the registers disappear. The trail runs backward through the body-brokers who feed London's anatomy schools and forward into a private club of collectors who pay for bones that have already been underground. Someone is authenticating corpses. Someone needs the dead to die twice. A Victorian horror mystery for readers of slow-burning historical dread.