The Shape of Darkness: Signed Bookplate Edition (Hardback)
Laura Purcell (author)Published: 21/01/2021
Another deliciously dark and brooding gothic mystery from the author of The Silent Companions and Bone China, The Shape of Darkness sets a silhouette artist and a child medium on the trail of a ruthless serial killer in Victorian Bath.
Signed Bookplate Edition
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Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness... A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...
Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...
What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526639783
Number of pages: 416
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
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“Her best yet...?”
I read this is one evening, finishing it at around midnight just before bed...which may not have been wise, as the ending left me fairly spooked. Agnes is a silhouette artist in Victorian Bath, struggling to make ends... More
“Brilliant”
Another really dark gothic Victorian novel from the talented pen of Laura Purcell. Will have you gripped from page one to the very end. This lady just gets better and better.
“Will keep you awake at night....”
When silhouette artist Agnes’s clients start being murdered, she approaches Pearl, a renowned child spirit medium to attempt to make contact with those who have passed on and reveal just who killed them.
But Agnes and...
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