PREVIOUS BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

Dead Letters (Murder is Academic, US)

Stage Fright

Footfall

Invisible

Deep Water

Cold, Cold Heart

Christine Poulson was born and brought up in North Yorkshire. She studied English Literature and Art History at the University of Leicester, later earning a PhD. She went on to work as a curator at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and at the William Morris Society at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith before becoming a lecturer in Art History at Homerton College, Cambridge. As well as writing fiction she has written widely on nineteenth-century art and literature, and her most recent work of non-fiction was The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art, 1840–1920. Her short stories have been short-listed for several awards, including the CWA Short Story Dagger and twice for the Margery Allingham Prize. She lives in a watermill in Derbyshire with her family.

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