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Falling Creatures: The Times Historical Book of the Month (Cornish Mysteries) - Softcover

Stansfield, Katherine (Author)

 
9780749021436: Falling Creatures: The Times Historical Book of the Month (Cornish Mysteries)

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A Gothic moorland murder mystery based on real events An atmospheric tale that probes the heart of Victorian Cornwall against a backdrop of faith, folklore and gallows justice Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. But Charlotte has many secrets, possessing powers that cause both good and ill. When she’s found on the moor with her throat cut, Shilly is determined to find out who is responsible, and so is the stranger calling himself Mr Williams who asks for Shilly’s help. Mr Williams has secrets too, and Shilly is thrown into the bewildering new world of modern detection. First of the Cornish Mysteries books Influences of Daphne du Maurier and the appeal of Alex Grecian’s Scotland Yard Murder Squad series Picked as a Top Summer Read in The Times

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Katherine Stansfield is a novelist and poet whose novels The Visitor and The Magpie Tree have won the Holyer an Gof Fiction Award. She grew up in the wilds of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and lived on the west coast of Wales for many years.

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