The Scold's Bridle (9781447208099)

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, The Scold's Bridle is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters.

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 . . .

Product details

• Format Paperback | 464 pages
• Dimensions 130 x 197 x 28mm | 330g
• Publication date 01 Mar 2012
• Publisher Pan MacMillan
• Imprint Pan Books
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note map
• ISBN10 1447208099
• ISBN13 9781447208099
• Bestsellers rank 58,699

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