Shadows of Madness - Paperback

by Tracy L. Ward (Author)

Summoned to Edinburgh after another inexplicable vision, Dr. Peter Ainsley and his sister, Margaret Marshall, are shocked to discover their good friend, and Margaret's secret lover, has been arrested for murder. Dr. Jonas Davies, a celebrated surgeon and newly appointed professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, was found at the grisly scene with the bloodied surgical knife at his side, but both Ainsley and Margaret know that is hardly enough evidence to convict a man. With a police inspector determined to prove Dr. Davies's guilt and his medical colleagues distancing themselves from the nightmare, it falls on Margaret and Ainsley to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that their friend had no motive to kill his fellow professor and didn't perpetrate the crime. As the investigation moves forward, however, it becomes clear it won't be enough to convince the court Dr. Davies didn't kill the professor. They have to find the person who did, along with enough evidence to convict him before the Scottish judicial system sentences Jonas to hang.

Author Biography

A former journalist and graduate from Humber College's School for Writers, Tracy L. Ward has been hard at work developing her favourite protagonist, Peter Ainsley, and chronicling his adventures as a morgue surgeon in Victorian England. When not writing or reading, Tracy can be found in her vegetable garden. She lives near Barrie, Ontario with her husband, two teenagers and an intellectually-challenged Cocker Spaniel named Watson.