The Resurrectionist

A. Rae Dunlap, Tom Kiteley

eAudio - 2025

In the tradition of The Alienist and Anatomy: A Love Story, a decadently macabre, dark and twisty gothic debut set in 19th century Scotland—when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh—as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching. Historical fiction, true crime, and dark academia intertwine in a harrowing tale of murder, greed, and the grisly origins of modern medicine for readers of Lydia Kang, ML Rio, Sarah Perry, and C.E. McGill. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. A shining beacon of medical discovery in the age of New Enli...ghtenment, the city's university offers everything James desires—except the chance to work on a human cadaver. For that, he needs to join one of the... more