{"product_id":"instruments-of-darkness-9780143120407","title":"Instruments of Darkness","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first novel in the Westerman and Crowther historical crime series that \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e called \"CSI: Georgian England\" and Tess Gerritsen called \"chillingly memorable\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDebut novelist Imogen Robertson won the London \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's First Thousand Words of a Novel competition in 2007 with the opening of \u003ci\u003eInstruments of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e. The finished work is a fast-paced historical mystery starring a pair of amateur eighteenth-century sleuths with razor-sharp minds. When Harriet Westerman, the unconventional mistress of a Sussex manor, finds a dead man on her grounds, she enlists reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer. Moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from dark London streets to the gentrified countryside, \u003ci\u003eInstruments of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping tale of the forbidding Thornleigh Hall and an unlikely forensic duo determined to uncover its deadly secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eImogen Robertson studied Russian and German at Cambridge University and has worked as a TV, film, and radio director. In 2007, she won \"The Telegraph's\" First Thousand Words of a Novel competition with what would become \"Instruments of Darkness.\" She currently lives in London and has finished a second novel about Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther entitled \"Anatomy of Murder.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50927535292690,"sku":"9780143120407","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c85571e-40e2-428e-ae88-92bc4fc718d5.jpg?v=1738985248","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/instruments-of-darkness-9780143120407","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}