Book description
The first instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, from the
prize-winning author of the Richard and Judy Book Club novel,
The American Boy
. Workmen in the small market town of Lydmouth are demolishing an old
cottage. A sledgehammer smashes into what looks like a solid wall.
Instead, layers of wallpaper conceal the door of a locked cupboard which
holds a box - and in the box is the skeleton of a young baby. Items
within the box suggest that the baby was entombed early in the
nineteenth century, but when another man is also found dead, the
evidence suggests that the baby's death is more recent than it seems and
that a killer is on the loose. Journalist Jill Francis, newly arrived
from London, has her first assignment. 'Andrew Taylor is a master
story-teller' A bestselling crime writer, Andrew Taylor has also
worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, librarian, labourer and
publisher's reader. He has written many prize-winning crime novels and
thrillers, including the William Dougal crime series, the Lydmouth crime
series, the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy - which was televised as ITV's
Fallen Angel
- and several standalone historical crime novels. His many awards
include the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2009 for sustained excellence
in crime writing, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America,
and the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, which
he has won twice - most recently for his bestselling Richard & Judy
Book Club novel, The American Boy
, which was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the
Decade. Bleeding Heart Square
won Sweden's Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar. Andrew Taylor is
also the crime fiction reviewer of the Spectator
. He lives with his wife in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of
England and Wales. To find out more, visit Andrew's website, www.
andrew-taylor. co. uk, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.
com/andrewjrtaylor
