The Burial Plot
- Author Elizabeth Macneal
- Narrator TBD
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 10 hours
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
'I genuinely could not put this down' Stacey Halls
'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' Gillian McAllister
'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' Susan Stokes Chapman
From Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is a spellbinding Gothic thriller about murder, manipulation, and a young woman trying to wrestle power from the hands of a dangerous man. But he’s always one step ahead . . .
London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet and now she needs to disappear.
Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family – the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself – she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.
Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .
Critics Review
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Propulsive, rich and properly gripping. Macneal is a masterful storyteller – I genuinely could not put this down.
Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars and Mrs England -
The always-brilliant Macneal levels up once again in this tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it.
Gillian McAllister -
A book to sink into and relish. Dark, clever, with a twist worthy of your attention. Macneal gets better and better.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, bestselling author of The Mercies -
Elizabeth Macneal is the real deal – she crafts meticulously researched, page turning gothic tales in beautiful prose. The Burial Plot’s rich blend of mystery, mayhem and murder both grips and enchants.
Rachel Hore -
The Burial Plot is gothic and gripping, full of twists and turns. I was hooked from the first page, and on constant tenterhooks about the fate of the book’s heroine. Macneal brings Victorian England – and all of its potential dangers – vividly to life, and the characters leap off the page.
Flora Carr, author of The Tower -
Taut, propulsive, beautifully done – Macneal has once again written a richly drawn story with characters that leap from the page and a plot which hooks you in from the first page to the very last.
Susan Stokes Chapman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Pandora
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