The Burial Plot by Macneal, Elizabeth

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<p><b>From Elizabeth Macneal, the <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Doll Factory, </i><i>The Burial Plot</i> is an unstoppable thriller about murder, manipulation, and a young woman trying to wrestle power from the hands of a dangerous man. But he&rsquo;s always one step ahead . . . </b><br><br>London, 1839. Where the cemeteries are full and there is money to be made in death, Bonnie and Crawford lead a life of trickery, surviving off ill-gotten coin and nefarious schemes. Until one hot evening, their luck runs out. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie&rsquo;s feet and now she needs to disappear.<br><br>Crawford secures her a position as lady&rsquo;s maid in a grand house on the Thames, still deep in mourning for its late mistress. As Bonnie comes to understand this family &ndash; the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums grand enough for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself from the mysterious Lord Duggan &ndash; so too does she begin to question what really happened to Mrs Moncrieff and whether her presence here is all part of some dark plan.<br><br>Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .</p>