The Puzzle Wood : The mesmerising new dark tale from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Leviathan

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Author: Andrews, Rosie Historical mysteriesPublished on 13 February 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Raven Books) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 368 pages165 x 197 x 28 | 264g Arresting... [a] tale of madness, murder, disputed inheritances and hints of the supernatural Sunday TimesDelicious ... dark ... sinister Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of number one bestseller, PandoraThrilling Emilia Hart, author of Sunday Times bestseller WeywardStunning Lianne Dillsworth, author of Theatre of MarvelsMarvellous Naomi Kelsey, author of The BurningsDeep in the woods, something is stirring…When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a position as governess at remote Locksley Abbey in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she is apprehensive.It is not the echoing, near empty house with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the Abbey or even the dogs that the owner, Sir Rowland, encourages to stalk the grounds, baying for blood. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny: her reference and very identity are fraudulent. She is travelling in disguise to investigate the fate of the last governess at the house, who took her own life out in the woods. For that governess was Catherine’s own sister, but until now she had believed Emily had died many years before, when they were just children…In the outstanding new novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Leviathan, an isolated forest becomes the unsettling, beguiling backdrop to a tale of myths, memory and murder… Show more