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Biography

Laura Purcell is an award-winning former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. She is the author of five previous novels for Raven Books, among them The Silent Companions, which was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick, and The Shape of Darkness, winner of the inaugural Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Book of the Year. Her short stories have been included in The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits anthologies, which were both instant Sunday Times bestsellers. She also wrote 'Roanoke Falls', a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter. Her latest novel The Whispering Muse was the 2023 winner of The Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award.
Laura Purcell, author

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Books by Laura Purcell

House of Splinters
Laura Purcell
£8.99 RRP £9.99
Paperback +3 other formats
The Whispering Muse
Laura Purcell
£8.09 RRP £8.99
Paperback +3 other formats
The Shape of Darkness
Laura Purcell
£9.89 RRP £10.99
Paperback +4 other formats
Bone China
Laura Purcell
£9.89 RRP £10.99
Paperback +2 other formats
The Corset
Laura Purcell
£8.99 RRP £9.99
Paperback +1 other formats
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
£8.99 RRP £9.99
Paperback +2 other formats
The Laura Purcell Collection
Laura Purcell
£20.00
Ebook
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