Download The Mesmerist's Apprentice AudioBook Free
If the enigmatic Sarah Tanner re-opens her Eating out and Espresso Rooms soon after a disastrous hearth, the gossips of Leather Street grudgingly admit she's 'the fortune of the devil'. Yet whenever a local butcher is falsely accused of any heinous offence, providing horse-meat, it appears her fortune has go out... Drawn into an ever more dangerous series of confrontations with a gang of youths who appear determined to put an innocent man out of business, Sarah Tanner's own livelihood looks set for spoil into the bargain.But what web links the persecution of any humble butcher with a certain Dr. Stead - a leading practitioner of the strange skill of mesmerism - and a needy plea from Sarah's ex - enthusiast, the aristocrat Arthur DeSalle? As Mrs. Tanner investigates, she significantly doubts that the mesmerist, patronised by the best in culture, is a charlatan and his latest patient, the unwitting victim of a grotesque fraudulence. To protect a family's honour, Sarah Tanner pieces out after a path of suicide, murder, deception and deceit which stretches from the alleys of Leather Street to the drawing-rooms of Mayfair. However the closer she reaches the truth, a lot more she seems to be putting herself in peril...
