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Product details
- ISBN 9781915523532
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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New Year’s Eve 1928 – In the grand residence of Ravenswick Abbey, isolated in the wilds of Dartmoor, nine members of the household step into an ornate lift. The power fails. The lift stops. In the darkness, a single shot is fired.
When the light returns, Charles Ravenswick — the heir to the Ravenswick fortune — is dead on the floor. No one could have got in or out. All have motives, and none have alibis.
A year later under the pretence of reporting on the family’s infamous ravens, sparky Charlotte Blood investigates. She finds a house haunted by suspicion and secrets. She must unravel the mystery and with it the terrible truth behind the entire Ravenswick family. Her search will not only lead her down a dangerous path, it will reveal dark secrets that lurk in her own life...
Victoria Dowd is the award-winning author of the bestselling Smart Woman’s Mystery series. In 2021, her debut novel in the series, THE SMART WOMAN’S GUIDE TO MURDER, won The People’s Book Prize and was In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel’s book of the year. Since then, Victoria has gone from strength to strength; in 2023 she was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger. She has spoken at many literary festivals, including The International Agatha Christie Festival, Harrogate, Crimefest, the Malice Domestic (the Agathas) in Washington DC and the Jaipur Literary Festival with Vaseem Khan. Originally from Yorkshire, she was a criminal defence barrister for many years and is now a board member of the Crime Writers’ Association and head of the London Chapter.
