Matthew Guinn appears at the Decatur Book Festival, 4:15 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Decatur Library Stage. www.decaturbookfestival.com “First, do no harm.” Despite popular misconceptions, the famous phrase ...

Sweeney, a pharmacist whose son lies in a seemingly irreversible coma, arrives at the Peck Clinic hoping for a miracle. He discovers a dark and forbidding institution that promises "resurrection" for ...

“First, do no harm.” Despite popular misconceptions, the famous phrase doesn’t appear in the Hippocratic Oath. The ancient pledge does bar doctors from divulging the so-called “holy secrets” that ...

It takes nerve to creep into a cemetery at night, unearth a newly buried corpse and cart it away for sale—standard operating procedure for the body snatchers who supplied cadavers to dissection-hungry ...

With his second novel, Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring depicts the life of grave robbers in nauseating detail. The Resurrectionist, published by One Light Road, sets its stage in 1820s London. It ...

Jack O’Connell’s The Resurrectionist starts out standard enough—in a book club sort of way—with a man, Sweeney, who is dealing with the rage and guilt of losing his six-year-old son to a coma and then ...

The Resurrectionist is a spooky tale of grave-robbing and intrigue. In fact, it is so gory that it disrupted Richard Madeley’s beauty sleep. “This is certainly not for the squeamish,” says Richard.