
The Ice-House won Britain's John Creasey Prize, while The Sculptress was hailed as a top crime novel of 1993 by The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Now Minette Walters returns with her third novel, in which a wealthy English woman is killed with a scold's bridle--a medieval instrument...



Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Mathilda Gillespie's bloody corpse is found her bathtub, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle clamped on her head. It seems Mathilda's favorite heirloom was also an instrument of torture form the Middle Ages, an iron cage used...





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