The Burial Plot
The bewitching, seductive new gothic thriller from the author of The Doll Factory
by Elizabeth Macneal
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Pub Date 6 Jun 2024 | Archive Date Not set
Pan Macmillan | Picador
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Description
She wants him. He'll take everything.
'I genuinely could not put this down' Stacey Halls
'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' Gillian McAllister
'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' Susan Stokes-Chapman
From Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot 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.
Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .
Advance Praise
'I genuinely could not put this down' Stacey Halls
'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' Gillian McAllister
'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' Susan Stokes Chapman
'You know the books everyone loves? Wuthering Heights, And Then There Were None, I Capture the Castle? The Burial Plot deserves a spot right alongside them' Nina de Gramont
'Dark, clever, with a twist worthy of your attention' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781529090949 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 336 |
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Featured Reviews
Radhika H, Media/Journalist
Elizabeth MacNeal knocks it out of the park again. She is a very good, and very interesting writer - this is a terrific novel, and well worth reading.
Leanne C, Book Trade Professional
Since reading Elizabeth's first book The Doll Factory, she became one of my favourite historical fiction writers. Circus of Wonders is still my favourite with its cast of the weird and the wonderful and eccentric, but the wonderful thing about her writing is the detailed research that has gone into them.
The Burial Plot is another great historical story that you can lose yourself in. The stark difference between the lives of the poor and wretched and the rich and powerful is highlighted again in its pages.
Young Bonnie escapes an arranged marriage to an old lecherous minister by running away to London where she falls under the spell of a charming, manipulative con man. From the outset you know poor Bonnie is headed for trouble as she believes herself in love with him. Cajoled into taking a job as a maid in a rich household to escape a robbery gone wrong, she is thrust into the world of the rich. But of course she is a pawn in her lover's plans she knows nothing about.
Woven into their story is how the building of the beautiful big cemeteries that appeared during Victorian times came about.
Sure to be another success for Elizabeth, especially with the stunning artwork on the cover which is sure to make readers want to pluck it off the shelves!
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