# Instruments of Darkness - Paperback

by **Imogen Robertson** (Author)

**The first novel in the Westerman and Crowther historical crime series that _The New York Times Book Review_ called "CSI: Georgian England" and Tess Gerritsen called "chillingly memorable"**

Debut novelist Imogen Robertson won the London _Telegraph_'s First Thousand Words of a Novel competition in 2007 with the opening of _Instruments of Darkness_. The finished work is a fast-paced historical mystery starring a pair of amateur eighteenth-century sleuths with razor-sharp minds. When Harriet Westerman, the unconventional mistress of a Sussex manor, finds a dead man on her grounds, she enlists reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer. Moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from dark London streets to the gentrified countryside, _Instruments of Darkness_ is a gripping tale of the forbidding Thornleigh Hall and an unlikely forensic duo determined to uncover its deadly secrets.

### Author Biography

Imogen Robertson studied Russian and German at Cambridge University and has worked as a TV, film, and radio director. In 2007, she won "The Telegraph's" First Thousand Words of a Novel competition with what would become "Instruments of Darkness." She currently lives in London and has finished a second novel about Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther entitled "Anatomy of Murder."

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 0.85 x 8.37 x 5.57 IN

**Publication Date:** December 27, 2011

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