书名：The Shape of Darkness 黑暗之影

作者：Purcell Laura

出版社名称：BLOOMSBURY

出版时间：2021

语种：英语

ISBN：9781526602541

商品尺寸：19.7 x 2.8 x 12.9 cm

包装：平装

WICKED DEEDS REQUIRE THE COVER OF DARKNESS... the new gothic thriller from Laura Purcell, bestselling author of The Silent Companions

'Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better' STACEY HALLS

'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page' SONIA VELTON

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?Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. She is the author of six novels, among them Gothic novel The Silent Companions, which was a Radio 2 Book Club pick, was selected for the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club and was the winner of the Thumping Good Read Award. Her short story 'The Chillingham Chair' was included in The Haunting Season anthology, which was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller. Recently, she wrote Roanoake Falls, a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter.