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Praise for an earlier Lake District mystery..."Crisply written...solid fare for fans of modern British police procedurals." -Publishers Weekly of The Arsenic LabyrinthOn Halloween, just before WWI, a young woman's corpse was found, a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost is said to walk through Ravenbank each Halloween. Five years ago, Katya Moss was killed, her face also covered to hide her injuries. Then a third murder occurs, the corpse's face shrouded from view. The seemingly related cases fascinate history of murder specialist Daniel Kind, so he teams up with DCI Hannah Scarlett to investigate. Before they can solve the shocking puzzle, both must confront ghosts from their own past, as well as the ghosts of Ravenbank.Martin Edwards has published 16 crime novels and more than 50 short stories, and in 2008 he won the CWA Short Story Dagger. He lives and writes in the U.K. www.martinedwardsbooks.com |