The Scold's Bridle: A Novel

The Scold's Bridle: A Novel image
ISBN-10:

0312427557

ISBN-13:

9780312427559

Author(s): Walters,Minette
Edition: First Edition
Released: Oct 02, 2007
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
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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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