*LAURA PURCELL'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS AVAILABLE NOW* Winner of the
Historical Crime Book of the Year 2021 Award at the 2022 Fingerprint Crime Awards 'Dripping
with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot Laura Purcell just gets better and better' STACEY HALLS
'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page' SONIA VELTON Wicked deeds require the cover
of darkness... A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child
spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this
beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her
business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself making enough money to
support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy but then one of
her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes and then another and another...
Desperately seeking an answer Agnes approaches Pearl a child spirit medium lodging in Bath
with her older half-sister and her ailing father hoping that if Pearl can make contact with
those who died they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that
instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back... What
secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
