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When Abigail Lawless, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Dublin's coroner, by chance discovers a message from the maid's seducer, she is drawn into a world of hidden meanings and deceit. An only child, Abigail has been raised amid the books and instruments of her father's grim profession.
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Co. Wexford, ANDREW HUGHES was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. A qualified archivist, he worked for RTE before going freelance. It was while researching his acclaimed social history of Fitzwilliam Square -
Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square, 1798-1922 - that he first came across the true story of John Delahunt that inspired his debut novel,
The Convictions of John Delahunt.
Andrew Hughes lives in Dublin.
Résumé
When Abigail Lawless, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Dublin's coroner, by chance discovers a message from the maid’s seducer, she is drawn into a world of hidden meanings and deceit. An only child, Abigail has been raised amid the books and instruments of her father’s grim profession.
Préface
The new novel by the author of the acclaimed The Convictions of John Delahunt - a cunningly plotted, beautifully written historical crime fiction to stand alongside the novels of John Banville, Andrew Taylor and Kate Mosse.
