"When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and of setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science can absolve him--and Miriam fford Croft is the best scientist he knows. Miriam connects Daniel with her former teacher Sir Barnabas Saltram, an expert in arson, and together, they reveal Adwell's innocence by proving that an accidental fire caused the victim's death. But it's not long before Adwell is killed in the same fiery fashion. If these deaths are, in fact, murders, what essential clue could Daniel and Miriam have missed?"
This is a solid entry in Perry's Daniel Pitt series, and I very much liked that there was more focus on Miriam and her forensic science. This is historical fiction at its best, I think, with plenty of realistic details and a storyline that explores political and social mores, women's history, and also a story with twists and turns. I appreciated that Perry did her research with this, and it was pretty interesting to read about the forensic science of the time and how death from fire was determined (i.e. whether a broken skull was the result of a blow or the result of intense heat).
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