Donna has been running away from the horror of her childhood at Pendle House when it was a children's home, all her life. Now, twenty years later, she is ready to return and face those old demons, but arriving in Pendle Bridge she is afraid. Menacing masks and the depraved acts of the men behind them still haunt her dreams. In that time, the town has noticeably changed. Could she have left it too late to see justice served? Recently divorced, Jay Morton returns to her hometown of Pendle Bridge, with her daughter, Kate. She too, notices that the town has changed and blossomed into something brighter and more modern. But when the derelict and overgrown Pendle House is converted into a museum, Jay stumbles upon extraordinary masks with malevolent and threatening eye and is drawn into the heart of the town's dark secret. Taut, atmospheric and gripping, this is Patricia Hall at her most powerful in a novel of intrigue and suspense.
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Patricia Hall is the pen-name of journalist Maureen O'Connor. She was born and brought up in West Yorkshire, which is where she has chosen to set her acclaimed series of novels featuring reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray. She is married, with two grown-up sons, and now lives in Oxford.
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Patricia Hall remembers telling stories to her little sisters when she was six years old, and by the time she was in her early teens she was sure that she was going to be a writer one day. She gained a a degree in English before becoming a journalist and working for The Guardian and the BBC in London, amongst others.
On 1991 her first crime novel, The Poison Pool, was published in London and New York and this was followed by a book a year. Most feature her feisty heroine, reporter Laura Ackroyd and her on-off lover DCI Michael Thackeray. They are set in the decaying industrial towns of West Yorkshire and the nearby countryside of the Yorkshire Dales. In 2011 she launched a new series with Dead Beat, casting a sceptical eye on "Swinging London" in the 1960s. The sequel, Death Trap, will be published in 2012.
Patricia is married and now lives in Oxford. She has two grown up sons and a grand-daughter.
Visit Patricia's web-site at www.patriciahall.co.uk
On 1991 her first crime novel, The Poison Pool, was published in London and New York and this was followed by a book a year. Most feature her feisty heroine, reporter Laura Ackroyd and her on-off lover DCI Michael Thackeray. They are set in the decaying industrial towns of West Yorkshire and the nearby countryside of the Yorkshire Dales. In 2011 she launched a new series with Dead Beat, casting a sceptical eye on "Swinging London" in the 1960s. The sequel, Death Trap, will be published in 2012.
Patricia is married and now lives in Oxford. She has two grown up sons and a grand-daughter.
Visit Patricia's web-site at www.patriciahall.co.uk
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Another great Patricia Hall mystery along different lines. Chilling and heart wrenching dealing with abuse of children. I would say "Buy". Well worth a re-read.
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Masks of Darkness, Patricia Hall, Pendle House, Pendle Bridge, Kenny Bairstow, Mary Petherbridge, George Hateley, Chris Hateley, Peter Shipley, Pam Bentley, Fred Marston, Adelaide Street, Donna Latham, Debbie Flint, Granville Stott, Jay Morton, Sonja Kradic, Bernard Grogan, Margaret Davies, Grace Bairstow, Les Green, Nab End, Margaret Emmet, Debbie Harry, North American New!
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Masks of Darkness, Patricia Hall, Pendle House, Pendle Bridge, Kenny Bairstow, Mary Petherbridge, George Hateley, Chris Hateley, Peter Shipley, Pam Bentley, Fred Marston, Adelaide Street, Donna Latham, Debbie Flint, Granville Stott, Jay Morton, Sonja Kradic, Bernard Grogan, Margaret Davies, Grace Bairstow, Les Green, Nab End, Margaret Emmet, Debbie Harry, North American New!
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