{"product_id":"the-blood-a-gripping-and-darkly-atmospheric-thriller","title":"Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Vivid, pungent and perilous' \u003cb\u003eCHRIS BROOKMYRE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Evocative...brilliant plotting'\u003cb\u003e REBECCA GRIFFITHS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intricate and darkly atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London, perfect for readers of Elly Griffiths' \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Diaries, \u003c\/i\u003eLaura Purcell's \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Companions\u003c\/i\u003e and Stuart Turton's \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as \u003ci\u003eThe Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, where prejudice, ambition and murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn shore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked - but how? Courting danger in the opium dens and brothels of the waterfront, certain that the \u003ci\u003eBlood\u003c\/i\u003e lies at the heart of the puzzle, Jem and Will embark on a quest to uncover the truth. In a hunt that takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary, they find themselves involved in a dark and terrible mystery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for E.S. Thomson:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'It's rare that a book is Gothic enough for me, but \u003ci\u003eBeloved Poison\u003c\/i\u003e is killing it. The blood, the bones...' \u003cb\u003eLAURA PURCELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Complex, harrowing and highly enjoyable' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAILY EXPRESS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Marvellous, vivid . . . breathtakingly dark' \u003cb\u003eJANET ELLIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years' \u003cb\u003eKIRSTY LOGAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A marvel . . . thoroughly engrossing' \u003cb\u003eMARY PAULSON ELLIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32083176685651,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781472126580_db739d8d-fa7d-4640-8d7f-b2796b40e0a1.jpg?v=1771929913","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-blood-a-gripping-and-darkly-atmospheric-thriller","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}