JULY 2006

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

RESURRECTION MEN
T.K. Welsh's new novel, RESURRECTION MEN, is completed and delivered to the publisher!

RESURRECTION MEN is T.K. Welsh's second Young Adult (YA) novel, to be published by Dutton (Penguin) in April, 2007.

Inspired by the 1831 “Italian Boy” trial of body snatchers in London, England, RESURRECTION MEN is a spine-tingling murder mystery that pits a beggar boy named Victor against a nefarious group of villains trafficking in human body parts, so-called Resurrection Men.

Twelve year-old Victor knows that life as an orphan is dangerous. Death by disease or accident is common. But to the body snatcher, the fetid streets of 1830s London – teeming with the poor and forgotten – are a paradise...and a child, once dead, is a commodity. In this tumultuous dark underworld, where a “fresh subject” can fetch as much as nine guineas – the yearly salary of a working man – Victor must risk his life to uncover the identity of the murderer who is at the heart of London’s furtive trade in human corpses.

For a sample chapter of RESURRECTION MEN, click here.