The Sin Eater
β Scribed by Sarah Rayne
- Publisher
- Severn House Publishers
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1847514251
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β¦ Synopsis
The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspense.
When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfather's North London house, it stirs memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the strange glimpses that revealed the darkness in his family's past, through which runs the grisly thread of an old legend about a chess set believed to possess a dark power. And when Michael Flint, meeting Benedict in Oxford, starts to research his story, chilling facts begin to emerge--facts that suggest the old legend contains a disturbing reality. Could the chess set's malevolence be reaching out to the present?
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