Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow.

Inspector Sejer & his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk & planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be simple, safe & trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated & motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

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Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow.

Inspector Sejer & his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk & planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be simple, safe & trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated & motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

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Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow.

Inspector Sejer & his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk & planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be simple, safe & trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated & motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

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Cambridge is a powerful & haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade & the emancipation ...

How does it feel to discover you don't know who you really are?

Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's

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How does it feel to discover you don't know who you really are?

Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's

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Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. & when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother's effects she realises that the past she has always been so sure of has been built on a tissue of lies.

Devastated, she runs away to London, & loses herself in a metropolis that offers opportunity, temptation & danger, especially to a young girl hungry for love & acceptance.

But her past won't stay buried forever, & eventually Camellia begins the long journey towards uncovering the truth about her background, & also, ultimately, about herself.



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On her uncle Jacob's death Johanna discovers a mysterious box of photographs amongst his belongings. Inspired to investigate Jacob's early life in London, where he trained as a photographer, she uncovers a macabre history laced with scandal. In 1905, Jacob is apprenticed to Herbert Burrows who photographs the s-ances of the Theosophist Society. Among the members of the society is Reverend Charles Leadbetter, who also employs Burrows for altogether more sinister task. Intrigued by the possibilities of photography, Leadbetter secretly uses young children in experiments to capture the soul on film as it leaves the body. When Leadbetter's scheme is discovered it leads to further deceit & murder- The true story is gradually pieced together from Johanna's research & Jacob's own account, leading to a chilling discovery in the Thames- ...