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She wants him. He’ll take everything.

‘I genuinely could not put this down’ Stacey Halls
‘A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it’ Gillian McAllister
‘Taut, propulsive, beautifully done’ Susan Stokes-Chapman

From Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is a spellbinding Gothic thriller about murder and manipulation.

London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet and now she needs to disappear.

Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family – the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself – she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.

Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .

Publisher Review

Propulsive, rich and properly gripping. Macneal is a masterful storyteller – I genuinely could not put this down. — Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars and Mrs England