From the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase , a "gripping plot" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) and captivating historical thriller. Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She wants to become a pathologist like her father, whose assistant she is, but this is 1894, and autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly,...