THE RESURRECTIONIST

A thrilling historical drama, thoughtful and emotionally poignant.

It's 1820, and the physicians of London are on fire to unlock the secrets of human anatomy, some consorting with criminals to get their scalpels into a fresh body. Job Mowatt has become such a criminala body snatcher, a resurrectionist. The wages are just enough to keep his brilliant daughter, Ivy, clean and safe in London's worst slum. When anatomist Percival Quinn asks Job to dig up a rare specimenthe wife of a powerful and dangerous manJob knows instantly he is inviting trouble, but knows, too, that the payment would allow Ivy to escape the brief, miserable existence that awaits women of her class. All it will take is a single night's work. A single night that will bring Job deeper into darkness and closer to death than he has ever been. Lords and ladies in their glittering mansions, six-bottle men and opium eaters in foul tenements, they all take their secrets to the grave...and sometimes the resurrectionist brings them back. Paul Scheuring's first novel, The Far Shore, was self-published in 2017, his second novel, The Resurrectionist was self-published in 2022 and earned a starred Kirkus; both reviews below. Scheuring was born in Aurora, Illinois and raised in California. He has a degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Scheuring has been a working writer, director, and producer since 1999; he's written numerous projects for film and TV, including People's Choice Award: Favorite New Television Drama Winner and Golden Globe-nominated 'Prison Break,' 'A Man Apart' starring Vin Diesel, and 'Den of Thieves.' He wrote and directed 'The Experiment' starring Academy Award Winners Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker and served as a producer alongside Ridley Scott on 'Klondike,' a series he created and co-wrote.