The Puzzle Wood: The mesmerising new dark tale from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Leviathan

The Black Mountains in Wales serve as the setting for Susan Stokes-Chapman's eerie book "The Dark Forest." A mysterious and sinister atmosphere is created by the combination of a spooky house, ancient woods, and eerie dogs.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Arresting with its tale of madness, murder, disputed inheritances, and hints of the supernatural, The Sunday Times called Delicious ... dark ... sinister. Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of the number one bestseller Pandora, thrilling Emilia Hart, author of the Sunday Times bestseller Weyward, stunning Lianne Dillsworth, author of the Theatre of Marvels, and Marvellous Naomi Kelsey, author of The Burnings, deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a position as governess at remote Locksley Abbey in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she is apprehensive. It is not the echoing, near-empty house with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the Abbey or even the dogs that the owner, Sir Rowland, encourages to stalk the grounds, baying for blood. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny: her reference and identity are fraudulent. She is traveling in disguise to investigate the fate of the last governess at the house, who took her own life out in the woods. For that governess was Catherine's own sister, but until now, she had believed Emily had died many years before, when they were just children. In the outstanding new novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Leviathan, an isolated forest becomes the unsettling, beguiling backdrop to a tale of myths, memory, and murder.

Weight: 584g
Dimension: 243 x 162 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526637376