Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher

The beggar children of London are vanishing. They're disappearing . . . right off the streets. Some say it's got something to do with the business of body snatching, grave robbers digging up corpses and selling them to doctors for medical research. Some say it's far worse. Now, racing against time, only Victor -- a poor immigrant boy recently ship-wrecked and sold into the bondage of beggary -- can uncover the identity of the ghoulish murderer at the heart of London's furtive trade in human trafficking. They took his best friend. They kidnapped the girl that he loves. Now, there's only one thing worse than their finding him . . . and that's him finding them first.  Oliver Twist meets Breaking Bad Spartacus meets Bones Previously named a Junior Library Guild selection, Publishers Weekly called CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BODY SNATCHER, "A haunting tour of London's underclass during the 1830s . . . Teens will likely be both captivated by Victor's harrowing story as well as his ability to prevail in the face of harsh injustices." VOYA said, "Teen readers will thoroughly enjoy the hair-raising suspense in this historical thriller." KLIATT said, "Like M.T. Anderson's The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, this look at sinister events in history makes the era come alive and lingers in the memory." And School Library Journal said, "Part historical fiction and part adventure story, the novel brings excitement to Victorian England . . . Readers will be on the edge of their seats."  Originally published in hard cover by Penguin/Dutton under the title Resurrection Men by T.K. Welsh (the author's pen name), this novel has since been republished in soft cover and for the Kindle by Cornucopia Press under the title CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BODY SNATCHER by J.G. Sandom (the author's birth name).