Victorian Gothic Thrillers
Beatrice Wren is mad.
Or so her neighbours believe. She's an unmarried woman, living alone in Victorian London, and whispering to old trinkets she finds at the shore of the Thames.
When a box of porcelain figurines reveals evidence of a brutal murder, her carefully maintained isolation begins to crumble. Each new clue threatens both her sanctuary and her tenuous grip on reality.
Her investigation leads to Grim, locksmith by day, criminal by night, with a talent for breaking more than just locks. He offers help while hiding motives as dark as the vengeance he seeks. Together, they hunt a killer who might exist only in Beatrice's fractured mind.
As the evidence mounts, so too do the signs of Beatrice's madness. But if she is truly insane, why does the trail to the murderer point to an even darker truth about her past?
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A dark psychological thriller about memory, madness, and the price of being different. For readers of Sarah Waters's Affinity, Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, and Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale.
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Beatrice Wren cannot recognise faces.
She's hidden this all her life, navigating Victorian London through observation of clothing and mannerisms, and the whispered memories of objects. Only one person’s face has ever been clear to her: Grim’s, a scarred locksmith and criminal who is using her for her connections.
Now fugitives together, they hunt the man who murdered her twin sister and sent Grim’s comrades to die with rifles designed to fail — her own brother. But their investigation pulls them somewhere else entirely. And her sister's dying message — he wears faces — makes no sense at all.
Until it does.
Beatrice, who can’t distinguish friend from foe, must identify the killer before she, too, disappears like so many before her.
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A dark psychological thriller about memory, madness, and the price of being different. For readers of Sarah Waters's Affinity, Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, and Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale.
Preorder on Amazon (Kobo or other stores coming soon)
