The Burial Plot
The bewitching, seductive gothic thriller from the author of The Doll Factory
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Publisher Description
'I genuinely could not put this down' – Stacey Halls, author of Mrs England
'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' – Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time
The Burial Plot is a spellbinding historical Gothic thriller about murder and manipulation, set in Victorian London. From Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory.
London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet and now she needs to disappear.
Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family – the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself – she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.
Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .
'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' – Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora
'Ingenious' - The Sunday Times
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.
