Bleeding Heart Square - Tapa blanda

Legend states the Devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square and left a murdered and mutilated woman behind him. Formerly the site of a grand medieval palace, it is now, in 1934, a decaying North London cul de sac.

At the lodging house at no.7 resides a collection of tenants with equally colourful histories, including the sinister Samuel Serridge, alcoholic Captain Ingleby-Lewis, struggling journalist Rory Wentwood and Lydia Langstone, a young wife fleeing her abusive, Fascist husband.

But there is a mystery lurking in the dark and creaking corridors of 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? And why are parcels containing goats' skulls and sheep’s hearts being sent to Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive...?

Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice.
He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger.