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This voyage is special It will change everything One September evening in 1785 the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid As gossip spreads through the docks coffee shops parlours & brothels everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel Its arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence & through the doors of high society At an opulent party he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on & a courtesan of great accomplishment This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course on which they will learn that priceless things come at the greatest cost What will be the cost of their ambitions? & will they be able to escape the destructive power mermaids are said to possess? In this spell-binding story of curiosity & obsession Imogen Hermes Gowar has created an unforgettable jewel of a novel filled to the brim with intelligence heart & wit ...
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The Mermaid's Scream

Why did Wynn Staniland a legend in the literary world suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide; a death that mirrored a murder case from the nineteenth century And now a promising young author called Zac Wilkinson is working on Staniland's biography and hopes to reveal the true story to a waiting world - while at the same time keeping his own troubled past hidden from public viewWhen Wilkinson is found brutally murdered DI Wesley Peterson finds links to the unexplained poisoning of a middle-aged couple at a local caravan park - and Wynn Staniland appears to be the connectionAs Wesley delves further into the case he suspects a sinister puppet show might provide the solution a grim re-enactment of the murder of Mary Field a
cause celebre from the reign of Queen Victoria that inspired Staniland's best-known novelThe case becomes personal for Wesley when he discovers his son is involved and as he begins to unravel decades of secrets and deception the shocking truth proves almost too much to bear
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Why did Wynn Staniland a legend in the literary world suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide; a death that mirrored a murder case from the nineteenth century & now a promising young author called Zac Wilkinson is working on Staniland's biography & hopes to reveal the true story to a waiting world
- while at the same time keeping his own troubled past hidden from public view When Wilkinson is found brutally murdered DI Wesley Peterson finds links to the unexplained poisoning of a middle-aged couple at a local caravan park
- & Wynn Staniland appears to be the connection As Wesley delves further into the case he suspects a sinister puppet show might provide the solution a grim re-enactment of the murder of Mary Field a cause celebre from the reign of Queen Victoria that inspired Staniland's best-known novel The case becomes personal for Wesley when he discovers his son is involved & as he begins to unravel decades of secrets & deception the shocking truth proves almost too much to bear

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