The Burial Plot: The bewitching, seductive new gothic thriller from the author of The Doll Factory - Elizabeth Macneal (Hardback) 06-06-2024

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She wants him. He'll take everything. 'I genuinely could not put this down' Stacey Halls 'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' Gillian McAllister 'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' Susan Stokes Chapman From Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is a spellbinding Gothic thriller about murder and manipulation. London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie's feet and now she needs to disappear. Crawford secures her a position as lady's maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family - the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself - she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house's paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning. Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . . Show more