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    Anatomy of Murder
    Island of Bones
    Instruments of Darkness: A Novel
    Audiobook series3 titles

    Crowther and Westerman Series

    Written by Imogen Robertson

    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon and Jenny Sterlin

    3.5/5

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    About this series

    Imogen Robertson's skillfully constructed historical suspense novels featuring the forthright Mrs. Harriet Westerman and reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther continue to attract a growing readership. Set in late 18th-century England, Island of Bones follows the pair as Crowther reluctantly returns to his family estate. A centuries-old tomb has been unearthed, and an extra body found inside. The mystery is too much to keep Crowther away - but he knows that coming home means his chilling past will start catching up with him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 9, 2011
    Anatomy of Murder
    Island of Bones
    Instruments of Darkness: A Novel

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      Instruments of Darkness: A Novel
      Instruments of Darkness: A Novel

      Instruments of Darkness: A Novel

      Imogen Robertson
      4/5 - 28 ratings
      4/5 - 28 ratings

      In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born. For years, Mrs. Westerman has sensed the menace of neighboring Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex. It is the home of a once-great family that has been reduced to an ailing invalid, his whorish wife, and his alcoholic second son, a man haunted by his years spent as a redcoat in the Revolutionary War. The same day, Alexander Adams is slain by an unknown killer in his London music shop, leaving his children orphaned. His death will lead back to Sussex and to an explosive secret that has already destroyed one family and threatens many others. Instruments of Darkness combines the brooding atmosphere of Anne Perry with the complex, compelling detail of Tess Gerritsen, moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from coffee house to country inn. Mrs. Westerman and Mr. Crowther are both razor-sharp minds, and their personalities breathe spirit into this gripping historical mystery.

      In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born. For years, Mrs. Westerman has sensed the menace of neighboring Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex. It is the home of a once-great family that has been reduced to an ailing invalid, his whorish wife, and his alcoholic second son, a man haunted by his years spent as a redcoat in the Revolutionary War. The same day, Alexander Adams is slain by an unknown killer in his London music shop, leaving his children orphaned. His death will lead back to Sussex and to an explosive secret that has already destroyed one family and threatens many others. Instruments of Darkness combines the brooding atmosphere of Anne Perry with the complex, compelling detail of Tess Gerritsen, moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from coffee house to country inn. Mrs. Westerman and Mr. Crowther are both razor-sharp minds, and their personalities breathe spirit into this gripping historical mystery.

    • 2

      Anatomy of Murder
      Anatomy of Murder

      Anatomy of Murder

      Imogen Robertson
      4/5 - 13 ratings
      4/5 - 13 ratings

      London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship's captain who has been gravely injured in the king's naval battles with France. As London's streets seethe with rumor, a body is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames. Having gained a measure of fame as amateur detectives for unraveling the mysteries of Thornleigh Hall, the indomitable Mrs. Westerman and her reclusive sidekick, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, are once again called on to investigate. In this intricate novel, Harriet and Crowther will discover that this is no ordinary drowning-the victim is part of a plot to betray England's most precious secrets.

      London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship's captain who has been gravely injured in the king's naval battles with France. As London's streets seethe with rumor, a body is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames. Having gained a measure of fame as amateur detectives for unraveling the mysteries of Thornleigh Hall, the indomitable Mrs. Westerman and her reclusive sidekick, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, are once again called on to investigate. In this intricate novel, Harriet and Crowther will discover that this is no ordinary drowning-the victim is part of a plot to betray England's most precious secrets.

    • 3

      Island of Bones
      Island of Bones

      Island of Bones

      Imogen Robertson
      4/5 - 8 ratings
      4/5 - 8 ratings

      Imogen Robertson's skillfully constructed historical suspense novels featuring the forthright Mrs. Harriet Westerman and reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther continue to attract a growing readership. Set in late 18th-century England, Island of Bones follows the pair as Crowther reluctantly returns to his family estate. A centuries-old tomb has been unearthed, and an extra body found inside. The mystery is too much to keep Crowther away - but he knows that coming home means his chilling past will start catching up with him.

      Imogen Robertson's skillfully constructed historical suspense novels featuring the forthright Mrs. Harriet Westerman and reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther continue to attract a growing readership. Set in late 18th-century England, Island of Bones follows the pair as Crowther reluctantly returns to his family estate. A centuries-old tomb has been unearthed, and an extra body found inside. The mystery is too much to keep Crowther away - but he knows that coming home means his chilling past will start catching up with him.

    Author

    Imogen Robertson

    Imogen Robertson grew up in Darlington, studied Russian and German at Cambridge and now lives in London. She directed for film, TV and radio before becoming a full-time author and won the Telegraph’s ‘First thousand words of a novel’ competition in 2007 with the opening of Instruments of Darkness, her first novel. Her other novels also featuring the Georgian detective duo of Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther are Anatomy of Murder, Island of Bones, Circle of Shadows and Theft of Life. In 2013 she published The Paris Winter, a story of betrayal and darkness set during the Belle Époque. She has been short-listed for the CWA Historical Dagger three times and once for the Dagger in the Library Award. Imogen was one of our judges for the Solstice Shorts competition and provided us with Time travel/ ghost story, Grange Lodge Which she read for us at the festival and is published in Solstice Shorts, Sixteen Stories about Time.

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