Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home, and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared. Sarah's inquiries lead her to reforming campaigners trying to publicise the plight of the hundreds of girls ensnared in Edinburgh's houses of assignation. Sarah learns how young women are lured, deceived, trafficked and raped, leaving them ruined in the eyes of a society obsessed with moral purity, and where virginity is prized as a lucrative commodity. Drawing upon real historical events, _The Death of Shame_ takes Raven and Sarah into a treacherous labyrinth of exploitation, corruption, and immorality. CHRIS BROOKMYRE is an internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author and DR MARISA HAETZMAN is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years' experience. The couple teamed up to write a series of historical crime thrillers, featuring the darkest of Victorian Edinburgh's secrets. _The Way of All Flesh_ was a Waterstones Thriller and Scottish Crime Book of the Month, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Award and shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. _The Art of Dying_ and _A Corruption of Blood_ were shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. _A Corruption of Blood_ was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2022. In 2024, _Voices of the Dead_ was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger and their short story _A Spendthrift and the Swallow_ was shortlisted for the CWA Short Dagger Award.