Bleeding Heart Square
Author(s): Andrew Taylor
Bleeding Heart Square is a tense historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Ashes of London 1934, London Into the decaying cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow? And why are parcels of rotting hearts being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive?
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The period atmosphere, as in all Taylor's work, is flawless. He simply gets better and better Daily Telegraph Taylor is the modern master of a very Dickensian underworld... A sense of brooding evil pervades the complex plot, handled with great assurance Independent
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Michael Joseph
- : 0.341
- : 29 January 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 496
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Andrew Taylor
