Description
Product ID: | 9781447208099 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Scold's Bridle |
Authors: | Author: Minette Walters |
Page Count: | 464 |
Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year <p><b>Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, <i>The Scold's Bridle</i> is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. </b><br><br><i>I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing . . . <br></i><br> Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman’s face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda's death?<br><br> The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda’s diaries have disappeared . . .</p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-03-01 |