Quiver
Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio
Summary
In sixteenth-century Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Báthory tortured and killed over six hundred servant girls in order to bathe in their blood, believing this would preserve her youth and beauty. Danica, a psychologist, is working at a London forensic hospital containing… patient Martin Foster, who murdered a fourteen-year-old girl in homage to Báthory. When Maria, an old friend, reveals passages from what she claims is Báthory’s long-lost diaries, and lures Danica into a complex social sphere, Danica must decide what she is willing to risk to satisfy her attraction to Báthory’s ominous legend. Explicit descriptions of violence. 2011.