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The shape of darkness / Laura Purcell.

Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness... A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead and to try and identify their killers in this beguiling new tale. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back... What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?

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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Res.
C9009200982 F PUR
Adult fiction   Earlville Branch . . Available .  
C9009200990 F PUR
Adult fiction   Smithfield Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781526602572 (paperback)
Author Purcell, Laura author.
Title The shape of darkness / Laura Purcell.
Published London : Bloomsbury, 2021.
Physical description 401 pages ; 22 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness... A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead and to try and identify their killers in this beguiling new tale. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back... What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
Subject Detective and mystery stories
Historical fiction
Families -- Fiction
Spiritualism -- Fiction
Poor -- Fiction
Silhouettes -- Fiction
Artists -- Fiction
Mediums -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Secrecy -- Fiction
Gothic fiction
Bath (England) -- Fiction
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