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The Scold's Bridle

By Minette Walters

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2007
ISBN
0312427557, 9780312427559
Open Library ID
OL9891026M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
320 kB (327265 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
296\0
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the bathtub, apparently of suicide. The old woman has taken barbiturates, slit her wrists, and bound her head in a rusted contraption called a scold's bridle, a cage with tongue clamps used to torture women in the Middle Ages. The police start to suspect homicide right around the time they learn that Sarah has been generously included in the dead woman's will. When she becomes the prime suspect in the murder, it's up to Sarah to delve into the bizarre details of Mathilda's private life, a history of greed, abuse, and depravity, and uncover the real killer.

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