When a second body is discovered near Thornleigh Hall, the pressures on Harriet and Gabriel begin to mount and the secrets of the Hall, both ancient and modern, threaten to overwhelm them all. Their new young guardian, a young writer, attempts to protect them in the confusion of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots as he dodges his creditors among the alleyways, and learns more of his wards' complicated history - which may lead back toSussex. Combining crime-solving talents are the solitary anatomist Gabriel Crowther and the strong-willed Harriet Westerman, the wife of a frequently absent naval officer, who asks Crowther for help after she discovers a corpse on her property in Sussex. Meanwhile, inLondon, two children lose their father in a violent attack. Imogen Robertson offers up a fascinating forensic duo in her debut mystery set in England in 1780. The Earl's heir disappeared after a family dispute some fifteen years earlier, and has not been seen since. 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.
Her lands share a boundary with the great estate of the county, Thornleigh Hall, home of the crippled Earl of Sussex, his beautiful second wife and his alcoholic younger son. Anatomist and recluse Gabriel Crowther is reluctantly drawn into the lives of local high society when a dead body is found by impulsive, frustrated Harriet Westerman.
Daphne du Maurier meets CSI in this exhilarating debutSussex, 1780.
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