The Burial Plot

I genuinely could not put this down’and – Stacey Halls, author ofand Mrs England’A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it’and – Gillian McAllister, author ofand Wrong Place, Wrong Time’Taut, propulsive, beautifully done’and – Susan Stokes-Chapman, author ofand PandoraFrom Elizabeth Macneal, theand Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand The Doll Factory,and The Burial Plotand is a spellbinding Gothic thriller about murder and manipulation.London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet and now she needs to disappear.Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family – the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself – she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.