The Burial Plot
The bewitching, seductive gothic thriller from the author of The Doll Factory
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3.9 • 23 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
'Ingenious' - The Sunday Times
'I genuinely could not put this down' – Stacey Halls
'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' – Gillian McAllister
A Victorian gothic thriller from Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory.
She wants him. He'll take Everything.
London, 1839. Bonnie is running from a terrible crime. She and her lover Crawford have gone too far this time, and now she needs to disappear.
When Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames, Bonnie thinks she has found safety. But Endellion is a strange place, haunted by the recent death of its mistress. As Bonnie comes to understand the family who live here, she begins to question what secrets might be lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls. Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .
'Gothic and gripping, full of twists and turns. I was hooked from the first page' - Flora Carr
'A book to sink into and relish. Dark, clever, with a twist worthy of your attention' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' – Susan Stokes-Chapman
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This is a barnstorming slice of Victorian historical fiction set around a gothic house by the Thames and London’s packed-out cemeteries. It’s the backdrop for the tale of Bonnie—a young woman working as a maid in the aforementioned house after accidentally killing a man in a robbery set-up. Macneal writes Bonnie with warmth, but is wickedly successfully in painting a portrait of the man Bonnie is in unfortunate thrall to: the dastardly but charismatic Crawford. He has his own motives for finding Bonnie her job in such a grandiose residence, and all sorts of secrets come tumbling forth as Macneal drives her stunning tale of greed and seduction forward.
