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The Puzzle Wood
The mesmerising new dark tale from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Leviathan
The Puzzle Wood
The mesmerising new dark tale from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Leviathan
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Description
'Arresting... [a] tale of madness, murder, disputed inheritances and hints of the supernatural' Sunday Times
'Delicious ... dark ... sinister' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of number one bestseller, Pandora
'Thrilling' Emilia Hart, author of Sunday Times bestseller Weyward
'Stunning' Lianne Dillsworth, author of Theatre of Marvels
'Marvellous' Naomi Kelsey, author of The Burnings
Deep in the woods, something is stirring…
As Catherine Symonds, newly appointed governess of Locksley Abbey, arrives in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she feels apprehensive.
It is not the echoing, near-empty Abbey with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the house, or even the dogs that stalk the grounds, baying for blood. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny. She has come here under false pretences, determined to secretly investigate the fate of the last governess at the house, her very own sister, Emily, who is reported to have taken her own life out in the woods.
But despite the reports of her sister's death, Catherine finds herself increasingly drawn to the wood. A place of myth, memory and murder, she soon finds it will not give up its secrets easily, nor offer sanctuary to those who conceal dark deeds...
In the outstanding new novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Leviathan, an isolated forest becomes the unsettling, beguiling backdrop to a tale of myths, memory and murder…
Product details
| Published | 13 Feb 2025 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781526637406 |
| Imprint | Raven Books |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Arresting . . . with its tale of madness, murder, disputed inheritances and hints of the supernatural, The Puzzle Wood . . . carries enjoyable echoes of Wilkie Collins and the sensation fiction of the mid-19th century
Sunday Times
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A richly layered Gothic mystery with delicious undertones of menace throughout, The Puzzle Wood is a story full of dark twists with an even darker heart at its sinister core
Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of number one bestseller, Pandora
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A tale steeped in myth, memory and a pervading sense of gothic menace, The Puzzle Wood is a truly dark and atmospheric historical novel
Culturefly
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Myths, menace and murder pepper the pages of this deliciously dark gothic mystery
Sunday Post
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A thrilling trick mirror of a novel, full of twists and turns, myth and menace. Brilliant
Emilia Hart, author of Sunday Times bestseller Weyward
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A beguiling mystery, a mythical tale of a forest, and a fantastic Gothic romance rolled into one. Its intriguing secrets and complex characters kept me guessing to the very last page. What will you find hidden within - and beneath – The Puzzle Wood?
Laura Shepperson, author of Sunday Times bestseller, The Heroines



















