Instruments of Darkness - Softcover
Instruments Of Darkness
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'Original and entertaining' (Notebook)
'Beautifully written, capturing the essence and style of the difference between classes, the violence and religious hypocrisy of the times' (Launceston Examiner, Australia)
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'Beautifully written, capturing the essence and style of the difference between classes, the violence and religious hypocrisy of the times' (Launceston Examiner, Australia)
Sold to Pamela Dorman Books/Viking US in an exciting six-figure two-book deal
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- PublisherHeadline Review
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0755348400
- ISBN 13 9780755348404
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Daphne du Maurier meets CSI in this exhilarating debut. Sussex, 1780. Anatomist and recluse Gabriel Crowther is reluctantly drawn into the lives of local high society when a dead body is found by impulsive, frustrated Harriet Westerman. Her lands share a boundary with the great estate of the county, Thornleigh Hall, home of the crippled Earl of Sussex, his beautiful second wife and his alcoholic younger son. The Earl's heir disappeared after a family dispute some fifteen years earlier, and has not been seen since. Meanwhile, in London, two children lose their father in a violent attack. Their new young guardian, a young writer, attempts to protect them in the confusion of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots as he dodges his creditors among the alleyways, and learns more of his wards' complicated history , which may lead back to Sussex. When a second body is discovered near Thornleigh Hall, the pressures on Harriet and Gabriel begin to mount and the secrets of the Hall, both ancient and modern, threaten to overwhelm them all. 384 pages. Seller Inventory # 1495041
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Daphne du Maurier meets CSI in this exhilarating debut Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex, dominates its surroundings. Its heir is missing, and the once vigorous family is reduced to a cripple, his whore and his alcoholic second son, but its power endures. Impulsive Harriet Westerman has felt the Hall's menace long before she happens upon a dead man bearing the Thornleigh arms. The grim discovery cries out for justice, and she persuades reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther to her cause, much against his better judgement; he knows a dark path lies before those who stray from society's expectations. That same day, Alexander Adams is killed in a London music shop, leaving his young children orphaned. His death will lead back to Sussex, and an explosive secret that has already destroyed one family and threatens many others. Seller Inventory # 3454
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