<p>“<i>CSI </i>meets the Age of Reason with a well-drawn intriguing cast of characters” (Karen Harper) in Tessa Harris’ superbly plotted historical mystery series featuring eighteenth-century anatomist and pioneering sleuth Dr. Thomas Silkstone.</p><p>In the notorious mental hospital known as Bedlam Dr. Thomas Silkstone seeks out a patient with whom he is on intimate terms. But he is unprepared for the state in which he finds Lady Lydia Farrell. Shocked into action Thomas vows to help free Lydia by appealing to the custodian of her affairs Mr. Nicholas Lupton.</p><p>But when Silkstone arrives at the Boughton Estate to speak to Lupton he finds that sweeping changes threaten to leave many villagers destitute. After a man dies in the woods it appears that someone has turned to murder to avenge their cause. But for Thomas a postmortem raises more questions than answers and a second murder warns him of his potentially fatal situation. Soon he discovers a conspiracy far more sinister than anything he has ever faced.</p>