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Circle of Shadows

Imogen Robertson

Death at the Carnival: riddle ritual and murder

Shrove Tuesday 1783. While the nobility dance at a masked ball beautiful Lady Martesen is murdered. Daniel Clode is found by her body his wrists slit and his memories nightmarish. What has he done? Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther race to the Duchy of Maulberg to save Daniel from the executioner's axe. There they find a capricious Duke on the point of marriage a court consumed by luxury and intrigue and a bitter enemy from the past. After another cruel death they must discover the truth no matter how horrific it is. Does the answer lie with the alchemist seeking the elixir of life? With the automata makers in the Duke's fake rural idyll? Or in the poisonous lies oozing around the court as the elite strive for power?

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : NOV 10, 2012
  • Imprint : Headline Review
  • Page Extent : 416
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780755372089
  • Price : INR 899
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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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