‘If
Philippa Penhow hadn’t gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that
January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happily
ever after…’
It’s 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of
Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic
Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only
one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain
Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no.7.
However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart
Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns
the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy
plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making
struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow?
And
why are parcels of rotting hearts being sent to Joseph Serridge, the
last person to see Miss Penhow alive...?
Legend has it the Devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square
– but is there now a new and sinister presence lurking in its
shadows?
Reviews
"Andrew Taylor has long been in
the top rank of British crime writers.... In Bleeding Heart Square, he
excels himself" -- Marcel Berlins, The Times.
"The most interesting novelist
writing on crime in England today." --Harriet Waugh, The
Spectator
Fiction
Hardback, March 2009
$25.95US
ISBN10: 1401302866; ISBN13: 9781401302863
Bleeding Heart Square