The Shape of Darkness

The Shape of Darkness
Laura Purcell
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 416pg
14 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781526602541
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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?
Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better -- Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars and The Foundling It' s her best one yet and that' s saying something. A story of a woman haunted in every way possible, I think it' s a future gothic classic -- Martyn Waites Darkly addictive and utterly compelling. Reading Laura' s books is like watching a horror movie where you have to keep hiding behind a cushion because you dread what is coming next, but you simply have to find out! -- Ruth Hogan Every bit as brilliant as I knew it would be. The writing has all the gothic creepiness that only Laura can summon, with characters as darkly ambiguous as the silhouettes themselves. It truly kept me guessing to the very last page -- Sonia Velton Beautifully eerie . . . Laura Purcell' s brilliance is in showing you a place and a time you think is familiar, and making every atom of it uncanny - and in The Shape of Darkness, she does it better than ever -- Natasha Pulley Purcell is rapidly making a name for herself as the queen of the superior bone chiller * i * Purcell has established a claim on Daphne du Maurier' s territory of psychological suspense and Gothic spookiness * Sunday Express *
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Raven Books, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, while her subsequent books - The Corset and Bone China - established Laura as the queen of the sophisticated, and spooky, page-turner. laurapurcell. com@spookypurcell
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781526602541
Published: 14 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Raven Books
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 292g
Pages: 416

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