” Penguin Decades” bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, & others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time & helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Peter Ackroyd`s ” Hawksmoor” was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Christopher Wren, builds seven London churches that house a terrible secret, & the 1980s, when London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sight of certain old churches, ” Hawksmoor” is a brilliant tale of darkness & shadow.