Gemma and Sebastian are a couple who work very well together despite the constraints of women working in the medical field. Gemma longs to be a surgeon but knows it is a dream and Sebastian wants to make Gemma his wife but is held back by economic restraints.
Now working on the horrific murder of a member of the British aristocracy, the Lord’s wife missing and a ships captain just wanting to close the case and dock in London, Inspector Sebastian and Gemma have to work against the clock to find the murderer who is on board because once they dock, the chances of catching the man responsible for now two murders is remote.
The story was not just of detection. It highlighted the difficulties in the medical field, the work of the coroner who had to hide the fact that Gemma ably assisted him. If discovered all his students would leave and he would find himself destitute. It was appalling the level that women were held, almost chattels who had to follow blindly orders given by the male members of society. And this was 1859. Gemma herself was very poor and if not for Sebastian, her future looked so bleak. Losing a job without a reference was equivalent to suicide as in the case of the two maids of the murdered Lord. The lifestyle, the differences of class very well highlighted in the story.
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