# The Secrets of Life and Death

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- Book: [The Secrets of Life and Death](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-alexander/the-secrets-of-life-and-death) ([The Secrets of Life and Death.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-alexander/the-secrets-of-life-and-death.md))
- Authors: [Rebecca Alexander](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-alexander)
- Publisher: rh_audiogo
- Medium: audio
- Length: 11 h 38 min
- Narrated by: India Fisher, Simon Slater
- ISBN: 978-14-7350-067-9
- Published: 2013-10-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 11 h 38 min

## Description

Krakow, 1585 Summoned by the King of Poland to help save his dying niece, Edward Kelley and his master, alchemist and scholar Dr John Dee, discover a dark secret at the heart of The Countess Bathory’s malady. But perhaps the cure will prove more terrifying than the alternative... England, 2013 Jackdaw Hammond lives in the shadows, a practitioner and purveyor of occult materials. But when she learns of a young woman found dead on a train, her body covered in arcane symbols, there’s no escaping the attention of police consultant Felix Guichard. Together they must solve a mystery centuries in the making, or die trying…