Description
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?
Anna Kierczynska –
Everything that Laura Purcell writes is a top notch gothic fiction.
Always with supernatural elements that can be explained later… but throughout the book the author makes the reader think that maybe the odd, scary parts are real… a book full of ghosts, talking to the dead, murder and an old art of creating silhouette portraits.
Agnes is an artists. She lives with her mother and her nephew and they have a normal life… until her clients are being murdered.
Simon, her late sister’s husband is always around and as a doctor he takes care of Agnes when she’s unwell. He talks to the police and does everything to protect her from distressing events like questioning.
Gothic story that gives you creeps.
A brilliant piece of fiction.
Definitely a must read.
Paula Fullerton –
I love Laura’s book and this is no exception. If you like gothic and creepy it is a must read. The ending was unexpected.