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Rachel Savernake investigates bizarre crimes and a baffling lockedroom puzzle in this Gothic mystery from the winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger

Yorkshire 1606 A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village 300 years later it happens again

Autumn 1930 Journalist Nell Fagan knows theres only one person who can get to the bottom of this mystery Rachael Savernake But someone wants Nell dead and soon while investigating a series of recent deaths at Blackstone Sanatorium shes missing entirely

Looking for answers Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell with its eerie moor deadly waters and sinister tower With help from Jacob Flint whos determined to expose a fraudulent medium at a sance Rachel will risk her life to bring an end to the disappearances

A dazzling mystery peopled by clerics and medics and embellished with science and superstition Blackstone Fell explores the shadowy borderlands between spiritual and scientific between sanity and madness and between virtue and deadly sin

Praise for Martin Edwards

Superb a pitchperfect blend of Golden Age charm and sinister modern suspense with a main character to die for This is the book Edwards was born to write Lee Child
Edwards has managed brilliantly to combine a Golden Age setting with a pace that is bang uptodate Peter James