1985 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel
Eighteenth-century London, and architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build several new churches. Two hundred and fifty years later the legacy of the past lives on, as CID Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates a series of macabre murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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"Mr Ackroyd is a virtuoso writer whose prose is a continual pleasure to read...An unfailingly intelligent work of the imagination." - Joyce Carol Oates
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