A Victorian detective hunts a kidnapped child who shouldn’t exist amid bloody London, crooked anatomists, curiosities, and a stubborn ghost.
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A Victorian detective hunts a kidnapped child who shouldn’t exist amid bloody London, crooked anatomists, curiosities, and a stubborn ghost.
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London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. But Christabel is no ordinary child. She is not supposed to exist. As Bridie fights to recover the stolen child she enters a world of fanatical anatomists, crooked surgeons and mercenary showmen. Anomalies are in fashion, curiosities are the thing, and for...
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Sexual content
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Sexual content present; one violent scene against a woman is especially disturbing
Violence & gore
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Mud-and-blood London; knife violence, deaths, and body-horror specimen jars
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Pipe-smoking heroine; period drinking in the background
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Ghost companion and folkloric magical-realism elements recur throughout
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Recurring themes of exploitation, otherness, and humanity in cruel times
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child kidnapping; violence against women; exploitation of human curiosities
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