Author: Annelie Wendeberg
Series: Anna Kronberg Thriller #2
Narrator: Anna Parker-Naples
Playback: 5hrs 59m
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Genre: Historical Fiction, Crime, Thriller
First Published: September 12, 2012
Book description: London 1889. A dead man is found floating in the city’s waterworks. Fearing an epidemic, the Metropolitan Police call upon bacteriologist Dr Anton Kronberg to examine the body. All signs point toward cholera having killed the man…but for faint marks around wrists and ankles.
Evidence for a crime is weak, and the police lose interest in the case. But Kronberg suspects that the dead man’s final days had been steeped in cruelty. Soon, a second victim is found, and Kronberg gets embroiled in a web of abduction, abuse, and murder.
But catching a killer and staying alive would be easier if the doctor didn’t have secrets of…her own.
Warning: medical procedures are depicted without apology.
Review:
This is a reread and it pains to accept it, but I read this back in 2018, by mistaking this for the first book in the series and it was the second one. So After I completed it, my intention was to read the first one and then continue the series.
It's 2023 and I found it again as suggested in my Scribd suggestions and I started reading it, it felt very familiar but I didn't really look into it. It was another one of those that I read while I'm at work and don't really research the new books I pick on the go, I don't have that much time to waste on my phone so I simply pick a book and download it really quick and then go back to my work station. -- The point is that I reread the second book without bothering to go to the first one again. I will promise this time to go back and read the first one and try to continue the series. There are 6 books, so I am on the way to a new series again.
If you ever need to, I'm going to say that it read very well, it might be more like a companion novel rather than straight-out series. We follow the same MC Anna a woman disguising herself as a man in order to continue to work as a medical examiner in a time when women are not allowed to have this type of profession - their skill set irrelevant.
This is a very promising story and I just love Anna, and her passion to fight crime and try to help prevent another epidemic break even if it means continuing to work with the most renowned detective, Holmes. The banter between the detective and the doctor is still pretty funny to watch.
Of course, we have a few examples of Anna and her sexual freedom, but the chosen man is not exactly the best fit. I was not fully sold on her romantic relationship, I think the second read made me dislike it more than the first time read.
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