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I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again ...What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing ...Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda's death? The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda's diaries have disappeared ...'An atmosphere of tantalizing, overpowering menace ...The tradition of the English whodunnit has passed into the safe hands and dangerous imagination of Minette Walters' The Times

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Crime & mystery

• Full title: Scold's Bridle
• Author: Minette Walters
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• EAN: 9781447208099
• ISBN: 1447208099
• ID: 04445175
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 328 g
• Dimensions: 168 × 195 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2012

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