Book review - Bleeding Heart Square
June 12th, 2008
Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.
Andrew Taylor’s Bleeding Heart Square takes us to a seedy part of London in 1934 and his mysterious crime novel keeps the tension and sinister atmosphere from start to finish.
Partly based on a Victorian murder case, it centres on the disappearance of Miss Penhow, a middle-aged spinster, who vanished four years earlier. All the other characters we are introduced to are connected to each other and her in some way but it is not till the very last pages the true secret is revealed.
Bleeding Heart Square, Andrew Taylor, Michael Joseph, £12.99
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