George Fane

Smallpox Hill George Fane

Dr Bradbury is just a normal family doctor living beneath Smallpox Hill, until he stumbles upon a series of unexplained deaths that begin to haunt him. Maria is an enigmatic patient of his who begins to tell her story. Is she in some way linked to the deaths? Who are The Brothers that she keeps mentioning. Are they murderers and if so is there anything that a doctor can do about it. Dr Bradbury's world is turned upside down so that symptoms become clues and any delay in diagnosis will probably mean another murder. This debut novel is quite unlike anything else. In part a detective thriller, a psychological mystery and an examination of the human condition, it becomes, by the end, a eulogy to a landscape and its people.