Лора Перселл — библиография

Шитье — трудно вообразить более мирное и безобидное занятие. Однако шестнадцатилетняя швея Рут Баттэрхэм убеждена, что ее стежки обладают таинственной, даже смертоносной силой. Рут обвиняют в убийстве хозяйки, и девушка не отрицает свою вину. Аристократка Доротея Трулав потрясена и заинтригована рассказами Рут, которую посещает в тюрьме, хотя ей сложно в них поверить. Доротея пытается определить характер малолетней преступницы с помощью френологии — науки о строении черепа — но в данном случае наука оказывается бессильна. С течением времени Доротея начинает терзаться сомнениями: неужели у них с Рут есть нечто общее? Да и можно ли верить…

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home. Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last…

A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older…

`[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes `Terrific. Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want?' Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black Some doors are locked for a reason... Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure…

Als ihre gemeinnützige Arbeit Dorothea Truelove zum Oakgate-Gefängnis führt, freut sie sich über die Gelegenheit, die Theorie der Phrenologie zu erforschen. Kann die Form des Schädels eines Menschen ein Licht auf seine dunkelsten Wesenszüge werfen? Doch als Dorothea die junge Schneiderin Ruth Butterham trifft, stellt sie sich ganz andere Fragen: Ist es möglich, mit Nadel und Faden zu töten? Denn Ruth schreibt ihre Verbrechen einer übernatürlichen Kraft zu, die ihren Stichen innewohnt. Die Geschichte, die sie über ihre tödlichen Kreationen zu erzählen hat – von Bitterkeit und Verrat, von Tod und Kleidern – wird Dorotheas Glauben an die…

Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange idea: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread--because Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches. The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly…

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted with the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. For Ruth attributes her…