This book is set in Edinburgh in the gruesome 1820's. Life is hard for Robbie who, when he was younger, had witnessed the death of his mother who had been operated on without anaesthetic, as was the norm in the early years of pioneering surgery. When his drunken father leaves Robbie is left to look after himself and his young sister as best he can and takes to working as a lookout for grave robbers, Burke and Hare. It is during this time that he once again comes face to face with his mother's killer as he sees him and sets out to take revenge.
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