The Shape of Darkness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143135548)

Edgar Award Finalist

A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from the queen of Gothic fiction, Laura Purcell

As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Why is the killer seemingly targeting her business?

Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back.

Author: Laura Purcell
ISBN-10: 0143135546
ISBN-13: 9780143135548
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/19/2021
Library Journal 06/04/2021 pg. 1
Booklist 06/01/2021 pg. 54