Sawbones

-Gentlemen!- William McAdam addressed the room, a knife in each hand. -Your watches, please! I guarantee you the fastest amputation ever performed anywhere in the world--

Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra-s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his world is turned on its head when a failed break-in at his master-s house sets off a strange and disturbing series of events that involves grave robbing, body switching - and murder. Sparky, persuasive young Loveday Finch, daughter of the late Mr Charles Finch, magician, employs Ezra to investigate her father-s death - and there are marked similarities between his corpse and the others. The mystery takes Ezra and Loveday from the Operating Theatre at St Bart-s to the desolate wasteland of Coldbath Fields; from the streets of Clerkenwell to the dark, damp vaults of