Book description
The Island of Thanet, 1808. One man is pushed into a kiln of molten
metal beneath the looming shadow of the Shot Tower, and another is dug
up from the sandy bay beyond. Who they were, and why they died so
strangely, is no ordinary mystery, and Missing Persons Finder Whilbert
Stroop has a hard time finding answers. On arrival in this marshy,
coastal corner of Kent, on the very edge of England, Stroop tries to
piece together the puzzle of these deaths, and the significance of the
objects each man died trying to protect. It is a conspiracy that began
ten years before on the battlefields of Europe, and one that will claim
more lives before it is done. Clio Gray was born in Yorkshire and
lived in Leeds for many years before moving up to the east coast of
Scotland in 1992. Having always been a bibliophile, she has worked in
libraries for the last twenty years. She has won several short
competitions, and was awarded the Harry Bowling Prize for Guardians of
the Key, which was her first novel.
