Tangled Web UK Review June 2008
Bleeding Heart Square by
Andrew Taylor
hbk out June 08
Published by Michael Joseph
at £16.99
1934 and aristocrat Lydia Langstone flees her violent husband but has nowhere to go. In desperation she makes her way to Bleeding Heart Square and the shabby lodging house where her down-at-heel drunken father (who Lydia never knew) lets a room from Joseph Serridge. The house was owned by a middle-aged spinster, Miss Penhow, who disappeared some years before. Narton, a plain-clothes policeman is watching the house and someone is sending ghoulish parcels to Joe Serridge - rotting hearts. A labyrinthine mystery, devilish plotting, terrific suspense and atmosphere you could bottle - all the elements that characterise Taylor’s stories, are here. The nuances of class and status, the legacy of the Great War and the rise of British Fascism are part of rich fabric that Taylor uses to tell his tale. Superb.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
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