David Holland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $22.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-27998-1
In this flawed debut mystery, it's 1833 and industrialization is bringing mixed blessings to the sleepy cathedral town of Bellminster, England. With rapid change has come that evil of modern society, the serial murderer. The fiend's modus...
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David Holland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-31866-6
Though billed as a mystery, Holland's second Reverend Tuckworth historical (after 2002's The Devil in Bellminster) is less a whodunit than an evocative thriller, more Wilkie Collins than Conan Doyle. On a trip to London to raise funds to...
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David Holland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-34077-3
In Holland's impressive third Victorian novel of crime and corruption (after 2003's The Devil's Acre
), the tormented Reverend Tuckworth is still haunted by his mercy killing of his fatally ill wife. When the death of Bellminster's...
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