Folly Ditch - Sayburn Lane, Anna
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A Dickensian murder mystery. A brutal modern-day gang. Can Helen Oddfellow outwit an old enemy - or will she be his next victim? When literary researcher Helen Oddfellow finds an old newspaper cutting in an antiquarian bookshop, she uncovers a mystery dating back 200 years. Her quest to find the real woman behind one of Charles Dickens' best-loved characters takes an unexpected turn, when the bookshop owner goes missing. Helen befriends his distraught teenage daughter as they try to find the missing man. As they discover, the marshes of north Kent are home to a criminal gang more brutal than…mehr

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A Dickensian murder mystery. A brutal modern-day gang. Can Helen Oddfellow outwit an old enemy - or will she be his next victim? When literary researcher Helen Oddfellow finds an old newspaper cutting in an antiquarian bookshop, she uncovers a mystery dating back 200 years. Her quest to find the real woman behind one of Charles Dickens' best-loved characters takes an unexpected turn, when the bookshop owner goes missing. Helen befriends his distraught teenage daughter as they try to find the missing man. As they discover, the marshes of north Kent are home to a criminal gang more brutal than anything Dickens imagined. Murky money, royal connections and desperate people link the past with the present. But it's the unexpected return of an old enemy that puts Helen herself in mortal peril. Folly Ditch is the intriguing new mystery featuring literary sleuth and London tour guide Helen Oddfellow. Long-listed for the Stockholm Writers' Festival 2022 First 5 Pages prize.
Autorenporträt
Anna Sayburn Lane is a novelist, short story writer and journalist, inspired by the history and contemporary life of London. Unlawful Things is her first novel. She has published award-winning short stories in a number of magazines, including Mslexia, Scribble and One Eye Grey. Her award-winning story Conservation was described by judge and Booker-longlisted author Alison MacLeod as "a powerful and profound contemporary piece in which one man's story stands for an entire nation's... it's a punch to the heart, a story that will haunt and touch its readers deeply".