The Lazarus Curse by Tessa Harris

This is my first Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery I have read it quite engrossing. He is surrounded by slavery,cold-blooded murder and sorcery. He has been hired to catalog and record specimens from an expedition to Jamaica, but as he meets the ship he finds that the young botanist he was supposed to meet had disappeared with the journal he needs.. He is drawn into a dangerous world of murder,selling of corpses,murder,hatred and infidelity. I thought I had figured it out but was wrong. This is a well written storyline and realistic characters. ***I received this book in exchange for an honest review***