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Hawksmoor

By: Penguin Publishing

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Last Stocked on 9/1/2022

Product Info

Title
Hawksmoor
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Peter Akroyd
Publish Year
2010
Pages
224
Dimensions
8x5x1"
NKG Part #
2147920408
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . 'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' Independent on Sunday Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly ac