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From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a real murder that shocked and fascinated the nation.

About the Author

Elizabeth Haynes is a police intelligence analyst. She started writing fiction in 2006 thanks to the annual challenge of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) and the encouragement of the creative writing courses at West Dean College. She lives in a village near Maidstone, Kent, with her husband and son. Her first novel, 'Into the Darkest Corner', was the winner of Amazon's Rising Stars and has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, 'Revenge of the Tide,' was published in March 2012. Lisa Coleman has been working as an actress on TV and radio since the age of six. Her more notable roles were Jude Kocarnik in Casualty for three years and Cam Lawson in Tracy Beaker from 2001 to date. She has done many radio performances including playing Eli Reardon in Ed Readon’s Week and has narrated over 100 audiobooks. She is also a writer and singer and plays the ukulele. Joe trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked regularly at Shakespeare’s Globe, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Southwark Playhouse, the Bristol Old Vic and the Ustinov in Bath. Joe’s work includes The Hot Kid and The Shootist (both for BBC Radio 4), the film adaptation of Great Expectations and several audiobook recordings, including the Spellslinger series by Sebastien de Castell and James Craig's Inspector Carlyle stories. David Thorpe has appeared in numerous stage plays, in repertory and on tour. Twice a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, David has been heard in many radio plays and readings. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has voiced several fantasy and science fiction books, including a number of the original Doctor Who books and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Becky Wright trained at Bristol University and Mountview in the UK. Theatre work includes The Witches and appearing as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, and radio includes Becky Cranford in the BBC Radio Drama Series Children of Witchwood. She is currently playing Nic Hanson in The Archers.

Reviews

'Elizabeth Haynes completely transported me to that time and place ... an absolute triumph.'
*Elly Griffiths, author of The Stranger Diaries*

'... charged with compassion, wisdom and a modern understanding of human nature and psychology. It is both a humane defence of women of all eras who choose not to conform and a celebration of their trailblazing.'
*Julia Crouch, author of The Daughters*