Dancing with the Bones

WHAT'S MORE VALUABLE: A PIECE OF FLESH OR HUMAN DIGNITY?

Severyn Donyk, a pathologist at a Kyiv hospital, looks death in the eye every day – but the most terrifying thing isn't waiting on the autopsy table, but behind the hospital doors. The grey area of Ukrainian healthcare, where the dead become a commodity and the living fight for survival, draws the frustrated Severyn into a trap of debt, intrigue, and illegal dealings.

When he accepts an offer from the mysterious company Materia Obscura, it seems he's finally found a way out. So what if he occasionally has to deliberately misdiagnose, steal a tissue sample, or cut a bone out of a corpse? But every decision comes at a price – and the line between victim and perpetrator becomes dangerously blurred.

Dance with Bones is a gripping medical thriller about the black market for human body parts, the creeping decay of human conscience, and the futile fight for dignity.

___

An incisive Ukrainian bestseller that won the BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year Award in 2022.

For fans of crime thrillers by Robin Cook, Peter May, or Jens Lapidus.