Shape of Darkness: The perfect spooky read for Halloween

The Whispering Muse is a thrilling new novel by Laura Purcell, winner of the Historical Crime Book of the Year 2021 Award at the 2022 Fingerprint Crime Awards. It follows Agnes, a struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath, who seeks out a renowned child spirit medium to speak to the dead and identify their killers. However, they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 416 pages
\n Publication date: 14 October 2021
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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 from Laura Purcell.

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?

Winner of the Historical Crime Book of the Year 2021 Award at the 2022 Fingerprint Crime Awards, 'Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better.' Stacey Halls, 'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page.' Sonia Velton, 'Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness... but what happens when the darkness is exposed?'

\n Weight: 292g\n
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 28 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781526602541\n \n