The mermaid's scream
Ellis, Kate, 1953-2017
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Why did Wynn Staniland, a legend in the literary world, suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide; a death that mirrored a murder case from the nineteenth century. And now a promising young author called Zac Wilkinson is working on Staniland's biography and hopes to reveal the true story to a waiting world - while at the same time keeping his own troubled past hidden from public view. When Wilkinson is found brutally murdered, DI Wesley Peterson finds links to the unexplained poisoning of a middle-aged couple at a local caravan park - and Wynn Staniland appears to be the connection. As Wesley delves further into the case he suspects a sinister puppet show might provide the solution: a grim re-enactment of the murder of Mary Field, a cause celebre from the reign of Queen Victoria that inspired Staniland's best-known novel.
Main title:
The mermaid's scream / Kate Ellis.
Author:
Ellis, Kate, 1953-, author
Imprint:
London : Piatkus, 2017.
Collation:
378 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780349413112 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FFICTIONCRIME
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2528004