Bleeding Heart Square

Bleeding Heart Square

by Andrew Taylor (Author)

Synopsis

'If Philippa Penhow hadn't gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happily ever after...' It's 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no 7. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow? And why are parcels of rotting hearts being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive...? Legend has it the Devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square - but is there now a new and sinister presence lurking in its shadows?

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 29 May 2008

ISBN 10: 0718153731
ISBN 13: 9780718153731
Prizes: Shortlisted for CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 2008.

Media Reviews
A master storyteller * Daily Telegraph *
Andrew Taylor is the most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today * Spectator *
A master storyteller * Daily Telegraph *
Andrew Taylor is the most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today * Spectator *
Author Bio
Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice. He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger.