The Specimens: A bold retelling of Burke and Hare’s crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth Music From contrails and Covid-19 to

From contrails and Covid-19 to Area 51

when the kanaka 'ōiwi sailed over two thousand miles across untraveled seas to the most remote island chain in the world

Vanessa Torres

Nine years ago

bleak mansion filled with hundreds of eccentric houseguests and one set of emotionally distant (some would say sociopathic) parents

The Specimens: A bold retelling of Burke and Hare’s crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth Music From contrails and Covid-19 to"A work of fiction that is both a potent portrait of early 19th century Edinburgh but also a story about female agency or the lack of it. The result is a compelling, painful, haunted piece of work."The Herald Edinburgh, 1828. Two women one rich, one poor must navigate life against a frenzied backdrop of medical discovery, mob mayhem, and murder. The home Helen shares in the slums of the Old Town with her lover William Burke could hardly be more