Falling Creatures

by Katherine Stansfield

Cornish Mysteries

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. But Charlotte has many secrets, possessing powers that cause both good and ill. When she's found on the moor with her throat cut, Shilly is determined to find out who is responsible, and so is the stranger calling himself Mr Williams who asks for Shilly's help. Mr Williams has secrets too, and Shilly is thrown into the show more bewildering new world of modern detection. show less

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Falling Creatures by Katherine Stansfield
It is 1844 in a Cornwall that bears little resemblance to the clotted cream and surfing clichés. This is a place of unforgiving moor and dangerous marshes that swallow the unsuspecting.
Antonia Senior, The Times (London) (pay site)
Mar 11, 2017
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Falling Creatures

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.92Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-2000-
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PZ5 .S736Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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