{"id":3645,"date":"2024-05-02T05:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T05:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:09:01","slug":"the-resurrectionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"The Resurrectionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the third son of a modestly landed family, James Willoughby has been told from an early age that he must earn a living befitting his station. Being of \u201ca diminutive stature,\u201d James decides the military is not for him. Nor is the Church of England an appealing option. Despite his family\u2019s opposition, the young man abandons his clerical studies at Oxford and heads north to Edinburgh to become a physician. It\u2019s 1828, the Age of Enlightenment, and the Scottish city is a \u201cshining beacon of medical discovery.\u201d But James quickly learns that if he wants to develop anatomical knowledge and surgical skills, he must join one of the private schools in Surgeon\u2019s Square. Unable to afford the additional tuition, James makes a bargain with his professor\u2019s secretary and dissectionist, the charismatic Aneurin \u201cNye\u201d MacKinnon, to serve as a lookout to prevent possible grave robbing in the Greyfriars kirkyard (graveyard) beneath James\u2019s chamber window. The naive student soon discovers that he is aiding a gang of body snatchers who steal fresh corpses from churchyards for anatomical study at the medical schools. Nye explains to a horrified James that he is a Resurrectionist: \u201cOur motivation is not in the value of the bodies we steal, but in the second life we give them.\u201d Bedazzled by Nye\u2019s scientific passion (and his dark sexiness), James plunges into this illicit, gritty underworld. However, their rivals in the body-snatching game, the sinister Burke and Hare, will murder anyone to corner the corpse market. <strong>Mixing a macabre gothic mystery with a sensitive coming-of-age tale and a touching queer romance, Dunlap has written an exciting, well-researched debut historical adventure.<\/strong> Bizarre, authentic details, like the mortsafes, or cages, that grieving families installed to protect the graves of their loved ones, make for an unforgettable read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the third son of a modestly landed family, James Willoughby has been told from an early age that he must earn a living befitting his station. Being of \u201ca&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[180,92,108,54,69,51],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-debut","tag-gay","tag-gothic","tag-historical","tag-lgbtq","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Resurect-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Resurect.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Willy Williams","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=7"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}