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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Author | Minette Walters |
| Year | Pan Books, 1998 |
| First Published | 1994 |
| ISBN | 0330336630 |
| Goodreads ID | 45116 |
| Google Books ID | J3UFt_pgDskC |
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I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again…. What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing …
Mathilda Gillespie’s body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley–knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold’s bridle obscuring the dead woman’s face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda’s death? The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide.
Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda’s diaries have disappeared.