![]() ![]() 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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