{"title":"Books by Bonnie Burke-Patel","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781835010839","title":"Dead as Gold","description":"A Love Reading Star Book and Best Book of the Year Pick'Melding modern mystery with fairy tale truths, this engrossing gothic crime novel is a thrilling, lyrical triumph' Love Reading.   From Bonnie Burke-Patel, author of I Died at Fallow Hall, shortlisted for the 2025 Betty Trask Award, CWA Gold Dagger, and the Theakstons Old Peculier McDermid Debut Award.   Adam Conlan has made a new life for himself in Morrow-on-Sea. After a wild youth, the goldsmith had settled down, determined to be around for his young son. But now Ophelia Richards appears at his studio door, asking if he will buy her gold. The writer entices and unsettles him; he sees she is adrift in the same cold pain and loneliness as he is.   At the same time, faces begin appearing at the studio window, an unwelcome gift arrives in the post, gold goes missing.   Then comes death, then comes Detective Inspector William Kent.   Woven through with Morrow’s fairy tales, Dead as Gold is a modern gothic crime novel veined with love, violence, family, and desire. Humans still use fairy tales to explore their deepest truths. So who is a wolf, and who is a sparrow?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685809693045,"sku":"9781835010860","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55897632014709,"sku":"9781835010839","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781835010860_e1ae3876-3e00-4d7a-8c33-0da65f7351a2.jpg?v=1792599005"},{"product_id":"9781835010822","title":"I Died at Fallow Hall","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thought-provoking, genuinely contemporary take on the country house murder mystery: the perfect combination of literary and crime novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Superbly and elegantly written... executed with skill, finesse and considerable compassion. A very impressive debut from a fully-formed writer' \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for The Betty Trask, The Val McDermid Debut Award and The CWA Gold Dagger.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Deerin moves to a remote Cotswold cottage to become a gardener, trying to strip away everything she’s spent all her life as a woman striving for, craving the anonymity and privacy her new off-grid life provides.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when she clears the last vegetable bed and digs up not twigs but bones, the outside world is readmitted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith it comes Detective Inspector Hitesh Mistry, who has his own reasons for a new start in the village of Upper Magna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn in spite of herself to this unknown woman from another time, Anna is determined to uncover her identity and gain recognition for her, if not justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs threats to Anna and her new life grow closer, she and DI Mistry will find that this murder is inextricably bound up with issues of gender, family, community, race and British identity itself – all as relevant in decades past as they are to Anna today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56307652297077,"sku":"9781835010822","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685794554229,"sku":"9781835010792","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781835010822.jpg?v=1792598984"},{"product_id":"we-search-the-island-for-grace","title":"We Search the Island for Grace","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe new literary crime novel by Gold Dagger-shortlisted Burke-Patel is an atmospheric homage to Agatha Christie.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey gather at Saints’ Climb, the only house on an island off the Somerset coast. Eight men with nowhere else to be at Christmas. Father and son George and Xavier Starvely; James, a taciturn archaeologist uneasy with the living; Victor, a French widower; Rick, the groundskeeper; and Chris and Nathan, the two men who want to make a documentary about this place and its extraordinary collection of medieval art. And the housekeeper Marianne, who seems to find peace in serving. Erected around the stone labyrinth built into the floor by monks, Saints’ Climb is a house heavy with loneliness. Xavier Starvely is a successful academic with a real life elsewhere. Yet he is wracked with guilt over the fragmentary memories of a childhood tragedy, and when his guests arrive on the island for Christmas, the deaths begin afresh. A labyrinth is different from a maze. There are no false turns or dead ends: there is only one winding path, which, followed faithfully, will always lead to the centre. What will each find at the centre of the labyrinth? 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