The Governess

When Harriet Unwin takes the position ol governess in the well-to-do Thackerton household, it would seem that fortune has smiled on her at last. That is until William Thackerton is found stabbed and she isaccused of murder.In a desperate attempt to prove her innocence, she embarks on adaring scheme to save herself from the gallows. In doing so she uncovers the dark secrets which the family is trying to hide behind a veneer of Victorian respectability.'A lively sense of period and a keen eye for the social mores of Victorian London are cunningly woven into a plot which is as credible as it is exciting' PD JAMES'A good-hearted, old-fashioned English thriller, wholesome and blessedly easy to read' LIBBY PURVES'A nicely plotted, strongly characterised and richly atmospheric book' Books and Bookmen