The Specimen by Jaima Fixsen (Poisoned Pen Press, 2024)
Historical Fiction
The Specimen by Jaima Fixsen (ISBN: 9781464233296, paperback), Set in 1820s Edinburgh, Isobel Tait’s young son has gone missing. On a visit to Dr. Burnett’s public collection of oddities and specimens, she spots a jar containing a boy’s heart: the boy had a damaged mitral valve – the same condition her son suffered from. These two things cannot be connected, can they?