the Last Gifts to Dead: A Dr Jack Cuthbert Mystery

A brutal murder, a complex investigation, a safe conviction. Or so everyone thinks until D.C.I. Mowbray hears the condemned man’s last words just before he is hanged. Now he needs Dr Jack Cuthbert to reopen the forensic investigation and prove that they have not been responsible for a tragic miscarriage of justice . . . The scales of justice are easily tipped . . . London, 1932. A brutal murder, a complex forensic investigation and a safe conviction - or so everyone thinks until D.C.I Mowbray hears the condemned man's last words. Now he needs Dr Jack Cuthbert to re-examine the case and prove that they have not been responsible for a tragic miscarriage of justice. But with no new evidence and both the victim and the killer in their graves, where can the pathologist begin? Might the unthinkable be true - have they hanged the wrong man? As Cuthbert struggles to find the proof, the case is also having a profound effect on his housekeeper, Madame Smith. Unbeknownst to him, a terrible secret from her own past in war-torn Liège has come back to haunt her.