![]() ![]() Clues carefully placed throughout neatly come together in a climax that has all the ingredients of a typical gothic thriller – a storm and a flood, a fallen woman and the reveal of a gruesome crime. The closer we come to understanding the events and characters of the present, the more of her dark past is revealed, and vice versa. She is a victim of traumatic memory loss and the plot involves her mind’s retrieval of obscene happenings 10 years previously. Connie is bright, beautiful and determined. ![]() An interconnected dual mystery is at the core of the novel, whose heroine, Constantia Gifford, practises her father’s trade, for with the failure of his once-thriving business, Gifford’s World Famous House of Avian Curiosities, the taxidermist has sunk into drunken inertia. ![]()
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