Blackstone Fell

Rachel Savernake investigates a bizarre locked-room puzzle in this delicious Gothic mystery from the winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.

London, 1930. Nell Fagan is a journalist on the trail of a intriguing and bizarre mystery: in 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and now, 300 years later, it’s happened again. Nell confides in the best sleuth she knows, judge’s daughter and staunch defender of truth and justice, Rachel Savernake. Thank goodness she did, because barely a week later, while investigating a series of deaths at a sanatorium, Nell disappears, and Rachel is left to put together the pieces of the puzzle.

Looking for answers, Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell in Yorkshire, with its eerie moor and sinister tower. With help from her friend Jacob Flint - who’s determined to expose a fraudulent seance - Rachel will risk her life to bring an end to the disappearances and bring the truth to light.

A dazzling mystery peopled by clerics and medics; journalists and judges, Blackstone Fell explores the shadowy borderlands between spiritual and scientific; between sanity and madness; and between virtue and deadly sin.

Praise for Martin Edwards:

‘Superb - a pitch-perfect blend of Golden Age charm and sinister modern suspense… This is the book Edwards was born to write.’ Lee Child

‘Edwards has managed, brilliantly, to combine a Golden Age setting with a pace that is bang up-to-date.’ Peter James

‘Liberally spiced with mystery, suspense and action.’ Peter Robinson