Unquiet Heart

In the second book of the gothic Sarah Gilchrist series, a medical student turned detective investigates a murder in Victorian Edinburgh, uncovering a dark past and a family where no one is as they seem.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2019
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Kaite Welsh's thrilling medical mystery, "The Unquiet Heart," is the second installment in the gothic Sarah Gilchrist series, following a medical student turned detective in Victorian Edinburgh. For readers of Natasha Pulley's "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street" or Laura Purcell's "The Silent Companions," this powerful novel combines a disturbing look at late Victorian attitudes towards women and morality with a satisfying murder mystery.

Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles, the man her family hopes will restore her reputation and put an end to her dreams of becoming a doctor. However, when he is arrested for a murder she is sure he didn't commit, she finds herself his reluctant ally. Beneath the genteel façade of upper-class Edinburgh lurks blackmail, adultery, poison, and madness, and Sarah must return to Edinburgh's slums, back alleys, and asylums as she discovers the dark past about a family where no one is what they seem, even Miles himself.

It also brings her back into the orbit of her mercurial professor, Gregory Merchiston. He sees Sarah as his protegee, but can he stave off his demons long enough to teach her the skills that will save her life?

Weight: 492g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472239846