provocative and original
— Peter Kavanagh, CBC Radio Producer
a brilliant page-turner
— BookBub
one of the best Sherlock Holmes novels of all time
— Sherlock Holmes Magazin
The illustrated prequel to the award-winning Kronberg & Holmes series.
She saves lives. He takes them. In Victorian London's worst slum, they're about to collide.
Anna Kronberg isn't your typical Victorian lady. She's a doctor disguised as a man by day, a nurse to prostitutes and criminals by night. When a sadistic gentleman starts carving up working girls, Anna teams up with Garret O'Hare, an Irish thief whose criminal connections are matched only by his dangerous charm.
Their uneasy partnership triggers something deadlier than either expected. The girl they're trying to save vanishes. Bodies start appearing in basements. And the killer has a new obsession: Anna herself.
Some secrets are worth dying for. Others kill you first.
Dark Victorian gothic meets edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller. For readers of Lyndsay Faye's The Gods of Gotham and Caleb Carr's The Alienist, who seek darker alternatives to Sherlock Holmes, and want their heroines unapologetically dangerous.
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Illustrated edition of book 1 in award-winning Anna Kronberg & Sherlock Holmes series.
She's London's most brilliant bacteriologist. She's also not supposed to exist.
By day, Dr Kronberg cuts through corpses in Guy's Hospital's gaslit laboratories, hunting microscopic killers that claim more lives than Jack the Ripper. All the while, hoping no one discovers the woman beneath the gentleman's attire.
When a body surfaces in London's waterworks bearing marks of medical torture, Kronberg draws the attention of Sherlock Holmes. He sees through her disguise in seconds. Though Holmes could destroy her with a word, he isn't her biggest problem.
The victim's wounds speak of medical experimentation. Of doctors who view London's poor as laboratory rats. Of a secret medical society that makes Burke and Hare look like amateurs.
To infiltrate their ranks, Kronberg must become the very monster she fears — cold, brilliant, willing to kill in the name of science. She'll need to convince them she's worse than any of them.
Part Victorian medical thriller, part dark academia fever dream. For readers of Lyndsay Faye's Dust and Shadow, Anthony Horowitz's Moriarty, and Caleb Carr's The Alienist.
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Illustrated edition of book 2 in the award-winning Kronberg & Holmes series.
She's spent years hiding in plain sight. Now she's trapped in his.
When Professor James Moriarty discovers Dr Anna Kronberg's true identity, he doesn't expose her; he abducts her. Imprisoned in his mansion, she must choose: develop biological weapons that could kill thousands, or watch everyone she loves die.
As days of captivity blur into months, the lines between captor and captive, compliance and resistance, begin to dissolve. When Moriarty's obsession takes a darker turn, Anna must decide: become the weapon he desires, or turn her deadly knowledge against him.
The expertise that makes her valuable might be her only path to freedom.
If she's willing to become the very poison she creates.
A Gothic psychological thriller where Victorian medical knowledge becomes a woman's deadliest weapon. For readers of Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White.
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Illustrated edition of book 3 in the award-winning Kronberg & Holmes series.
She poisoned London's most dangerous man. Now she carries his child and his secrets.
Pregnant and hunted across Europe, Anna Kronberg has bigger problems than morning sickness. The child growing inside her belongs to James Moriarty—the criminal she seduced and murdered with arsenic-laced kisses. His assassin, Colonel Moran, stalks her every step.
With Sherlock Holmes as her only ally, Anna must decode Moriarty's final game before his legacy destroys Europe.
A haunting exploration of trauma, identity, and survival. For readers of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger, and Virginia Woolf's darker works.
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