Hawksmoor

✍ Scribed by Peter Ackroyd

• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 200 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 014104201X

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 288 pages
Published 1993
There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'

So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity.

Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind