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The Mermaid's Call: A darkly atmospheric tale of mystery and intrigue (Cornish Mysteries, 3, Band 3) - Softcover

Stansfield, Katherine

 
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Falling Creatures was embraced commercially and critically: picked as a Top Summer Read in The Times

Cornwall, 1845. Shilly has always felt a connection to happenings that are not of this world, a talent that has proved invaluable when investigating dark deeds with master of disguise, Anna Drake. The women opened a detective agency with help from their newest member and investor, Mathilda, but six long months have passed without a single case to solve and tensions are growing.

It is almost a relief when a man is found dead along the Morwenstow coast and the agency is sought out to investigate. There are suspicions that wreckers plague the coast, luring ships to their ruin with false lights – though nothing has ever been proved. Yet with the local talk of sirens calling victims to the sea to meet their end, could something other-worldly be responsible for the man’s death?

Another atmospheric historical murder mystery that follows on from Falling Creatures and The Magpie Tree Stansfield again draws upon the history and folklore of the region for a rich and sinister story Stansfield’s subtle evocation of Victorian Cornwall has been said to have echoes of Daphne du Maurier

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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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