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Bleeding Heart Square
Andrew Taylor
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Hardcover, 432 pages; 2009
$25.99
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Sometimes you frighten yourself. So what is it, exactly? A punishment? A distraction? A relief? You’re not sure. You tell yourself that it happened more than four years ago, that it doesn’t matter anymore and nothing you can do can change a thing. But you don’t listen, do you? All you do is go back to that nasty little green book.
The aforementioned “nasty little green book” is a secret diary, with entries from January of 1930 through April of the same year, when the diarist (a wealthy spinster named Philippa Penhow) mysteriously disappeared. The identity of the “you” above, who’s so darkly drawn to the diary—and who slowly reveals its contents—remains unknown until the final pages of Andrew Taylor’s chillingly atmospheric novel, set in politically charged pre–World War II London. Despite its sinister elements, Bleeding Heart Square is an elegant mystery with no shortage of charm—thanks in large part to Lydia Langstone, the lionhearted wife of an abusive aristocrat who sets off on her own…and then stumbles into the middle of Miss Penhow’s suspenseful story.
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