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Laura Purcell
The Poison Thread
- Penguin Books
- 2019
- Taschenbuch
- 368 Seiten
- ISBN 9780143134053
A thrilling Victorian gothic horror tale about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread have the power to kill "A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its center... Reminded me of Alias Grace."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange idea: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread--because Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches. The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations-of bitterness and
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