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The Cargo From Neira  (Gabriel Tavener #5) by Alys Clare      ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Gabriel Tavernier, ex-ship’s surgeon turned country doctor who also conducts autopsies for the local Coroner, Theo Davey is called out by Jarman Hodge. The coroner’s assistant, wants Gabe to aid him with a drowned woman, a suicide. He hasn’t notified the coroner but instead comes to Gabe. Why? A moment of compassion? The treatment of suicides and their families subsequently is barbaric at this time. For some reason, and we never quite know why, Hodge wants to avoid this. Disquieted, Gabe agrees, although against his better judgement. He’s troubled at the thought of not fully revealing the situation to the coroner. He’s uncomfortable that this might strain their  relationship.  Only as they are moving the woman she coughs up water! She’s alive! Now it’s a race to save a woman who wishes to die.  When Gabe takes the woman into his home for care, he u nknowingly brings danger and in...

Angel in the Glass, The: (Gabriel Taverner Mystery #2) by Alys Clare                                      A vagrant's body is found in an isolated hut near the small village of Tavy St Luke. Physician Gabriel Taverner and coroner Theophilus Davey rule death from natural causes. Gabriel is puzzled by various lumps on the vagrant's body but it seems leprosy is not the cause. Still, Gabriel is troubled. The more he investigates, the more troubled he becomes. The story weaves together a group of dispirit occasions and people to make a whole. The local doctor, Gabriel and his sister, the midwife, the minister, the Coroner, a dead man with part of an astounding drawing of what seems to be an angel, a household where all is not as it seems, and what was reported as a wolf being seen in the region. Meanwhile local boys think they have found a cache of jewels.  It's 1604 early in the rei...