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Island of Bones

Imogen Robertson

Cumbria, 1783. A broken heritage; a secret history...

The tomb of the first Earl of Greta should have lain undisturbed on its island of bones for three hundred years. When idle curiosity opens the stone lid, however, inside is one body too many. Gabriel Crowther's family bought the Gretas' land long ago, and has suffered its own bloody history. His brother was hanged for murdering their father, the Baron of Keswick, and Crowther has chosen comfortable seclusion and anonymity over estate and title for thirty years. But the call of the mystery brings him home at last.

Travelling with forthright Mrs Harriet Westerman, who is escaping her own tragedy, Crowther finds a little town caught between new horrors and old, where ancient ways challenge modern justice. And against the wild and beautiful backdrop of fells and water, Crowther discovers that his past will not stay buried.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : APR 10, 2012
  • Imprint : Headline Review
  • Page Extent : 496
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780755372041
  • Price : INR 520
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Imogen Robertson

Imogen Robertson is a TV film and radio director. She grew up in Darlington then studied Russian and German at Cambridge University and now lives in London. She directs the hit Cbeebies show Numberjacks for TV and radio and won an RTS award in 2006 for one of her episodes. She also writes and reviews poetry and was commended in The National Poetry Competition 2005. Imogen won the Telegraph's 'First thousand words of a novel' competition in 2007 with the opening of Instruments of Darkness her first novel.

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