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Thank you to the usual suspects who have cheered me along during the writing process (you know who you are), and to agents Judith Murdoch and Rebecca Winfield for their encouragement, coffee and cakes.

Special thanks to Caroline Kirkpatrick and Grace Menary-Winefield for their superb editorial attention; to copy editor Robin Seavill; to the publicity and production staff at Piatkus; and to cover illustrator Helen Chapman for her evocative images of Kate Shackleton's world.

Frances Brody

Leeds, February 2014

 

Also by
Frances Brody

Dying in the Wool

A Medal for Murder

Murder in the Afternoon

A Woman Unknown

Murder on a Summer's Day

About the Author

FRANCES BRODY
is the author of Dying in the Wool, A Medal for Murder, and Murder in the Afternoon. She lives in the North of England, where she was born and grew up. Frances started her writing life in radio, with many plays and short stories broadcast by the BBC. She has also written for television and theatre. Before turning to crime, she wrote sagas, winning the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin award for most regionally evocative debut saga of the millennium. You can sign up for email updates
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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Author's note

Also by Frances Brody

About the Author

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

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First published in Great Britain by Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, an Hachette UK company

First U.S. Edition: September 2016

eISBN 9781466875708

First eBook edition: September 2016

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