A Fever of the Blood : A Novel

This riveting new detective novel evokes a spellbinding concoction of crime, history, and horrorperfect for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle and P.D. James.

New Years Day, 1889.

In Edinburghs lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective Nine-Nails McGray and Londoner-in-exile Inspector Ian Frey.

Before the murder, the suspect was heard in whispered conversation with a fellow patienta girl who had been mute for years. What made her suddenly break her silence? And why wont she talk again? Could the rumours about black magic be more than superstition?

McGray and Frey track a devious psychopath far beyond their jurisdiction, through the worst blizzard in living memory, into the shadow of Pendle Hillhome of the Lancashire witcheswhere unimaginable danger awaits.